| 5,664,679 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Dozens of protesters, mostly youth, held a sit in against the Ministry of Health's inaction against a recent fever epidemic. |
| 5,664,684 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Salafist prisoners went on a hunger strike, demanding dialogue with the authorities. |
| 5,664,688 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Demonstrators protested in front of the Health Ministry against "the deteriorating health situation" |
| 5,664,693 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Authorities claim members of the IRA kidnapped and tortured a young girl. IRA leaders deny involvement. |
| 5,664,697 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Retired colonel Abderrahmane Ould Boubacar was arrested and charged with "incitement to racial hatred and undermining the security of the state" for delivering a press conference about the alleged murder of black soldiers in 1990. |
| 5,664,702 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Police arrested several students who were protesting poor transportation at the University of Nouakchott. |
| 5,664,708 |
33.59278 |
-7.61916 |
Morocco |
|
15 Jan 1997- BBC Mon- In Morocco, clashes broke out today, Monday, in Casablanca, between the security forces and hundreds of students. |
| 5,664,714 |
31.63148 |
-8.00828 |
Morocco |
|
A Moroccan court sentenced 14 students from an Islamic group to up to two years in prison for disturbing public order and violence against civil servants, a court official said on Saturday. |
| 5,664,718 |
33.59278 |
-7.61916 |
Morocco |
|
A Moroccan court on Wednesday sentenced five students from an militant Islamic group to five months in jail for "insulting behaviour to state servants that casue bloodshed", said the official Moroccan news agency MAP. |
| 5,664,722 |
34.31 |
-2.16 |
Morocco |
|
6 March 1997- BBC Mon- Two Moroccan nationals were reportedly killed last week by Algerian soldiers on the Moroccan-Algerian borders, a Moroccan daily reported this Wednesday [5th March] quoting eye - witnesses. |
