Mauritania

What is Mauritania?


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mauritania is a former french colony in africa that has turned into a pretty disasterous country. it's history is summed up in the bloody battle between the moorish islamic minority and the black christian/amenist minority. ruled for years as a one party state, it had a decade long experiment with democracy, before a 2005 coup turned this into a military junta.

mauritania has more iron ore than anybody in the world.

See africa, french, war, junta, coup


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