Mboul Mauritania

15°46'28.0"N 13°11'00.0"W

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>>37717 (PB)

2017-12-05 19:39:03 (UTC+1)

>These are the countries with NO EXTRADICTION TREATY with the USA

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>Mauritania

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>>13614246 (PB)

2021-05-08 21:26:56 (UTC+1)

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Such a base, which could be located anywhere from Mauritania to Namibia, would allow China to project its growing military might not just across the Pacific Ocean but the Atlantic too, General Townsend said.

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excerpts from huf article:

Sex, Obama, and a Mauritanian Dissident

03/18/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011

Mauritania is the only Arab country after September 11th that managed to hold a free and fair election (save for Lebanon, depending on your definition of “free and fair”), electing a president without a military invasion in 2007, only to be toppled by a coup a year later. U.S. policy in Mauritania, as with the rest of the Arab world, focuses on terrorism, ignoring the fact that Mauritania has become a dictatorship.

…Hanevy Ould Dahah has been sitting in jail for six months for publishing an anonymous comment from a woman which read “I want to have sex…I am free” on Taqadoumy, the popular site Hanevy edits. On December 24, Hanevy’s sentence was up, but authorities refused to release him; the judge claimed that Hanevy cannot be released because the appeals court doesn’t have his file.

In fact, on December 23, just one day before Hanevy’s sentence was to be completed, Obama added Mauritania to a list of sub-Saharan African countries eligible for preferential U.S. tariff treatment under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The U.S. remains silent about Hanevy’s case, neither discussing it through the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott nor the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Meanwhile, Hanevy is entering the fourth day of his hunger strike, and in a letter transmitted by his lawyers (and translated from the original Arabic, available here), writes:

“I am ready to pay with my life for my deep commitment to democratic values, and also [because of] my categorical rejection of dictatorship’s oppression and arrogance, I protest my preventive incarceration which is the cruelest form of tyranny…"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-obama-and-a-mauritani_b_408519

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The Mauritanian (Film)

The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay written by M.B. Traven, Rory Haines, and Sohrab Noshirvani. The film is based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a true story of Slahi's experience of being held for fourteen years without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/