Stories about Mauritania from January, 2011
Tunisia: Keeping a Tab on Dissidents
Mauritanian blogger Nasser Weddady translates a document which shows how the former Ben Ali regime of Tunisia kept a tab on its dissidents abroad.
Mauritania: Yacoub Ould Dahoud – A Hero
Mauritanian blogger Nasser Weddady writes about his country's own Bouazizi – Yacoub Ould Dahoud, who died yesterday after burning himself in front of the presidential palace in Nouakchott on January 17.
Algeria: On the Mauritanian Self-Immolation
Algerian-American blogger Kal, from The Moor Next Door, comments on a self-immolation in Mauritania.
