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		<title>Just a Note on Mauritania</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/just-a-note-on-mauritania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are some general thoughts on the political situation in Mauritania as they stand now. The country is divided in significant ways and the economic situation leaves much to be desired for the average person, a situation many can attest to. The  Some of this is economic &#8212; owing to drought, mismanagement, unemployment, food insecurity and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7682&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 January, a big day?</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/2-january-a-big-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notice that today there were protests organised in ten provinces in Algeria, led by the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), according to TSA, citing a communique from the group. It did not report on the numbers of protesters but noted some of the demands (housing, work, development projects, calling out local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7686&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AQIM Link Roundup</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/aqim-link-roundup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AQIM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maghreb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short roundup of links related to al-Qa’idah in the Islamic Maghreb from the last few days. In the main these stories deal with relations between Mali and the Polisario (there were reports of a deterioration in relations and Bamako withdrawing from ties with the Polisario and then that Mali had agreed to allow the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7668&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Misses Saddam?: These guys</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/who-misses-saddam-these-guys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arabs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers will recall this blogger&#8217;s interest in the Ba&#8217;thist trend in Mauritania, which is mainly dominated by the Iraqi/Saddamist strain. Mauritanian Ba&#8217;this (as well as a few of the other, small Arab nationalist or nationalist-Islamist parties) had gravitated toward the Qadhafite trend while Libya spreading largesse in the country, in the last few years mainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7660&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short Algeria Link List</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/short-algeria-link-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few Algeria-related links: ‘MSP: Partira… partira pas?’ El Watan,  30 December, 2011. The MSP (Algeria’s Ikhwan) is scheduled to announce its shura council&#8217;s decision on whether or not to leave or remain in the ruling coalition with the FLN and RND. This short article describes a schism within the party and some of the politics around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7656&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Re: The MSP &amp; Leaving the Coalition</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/re-the-msp-leaving-the-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 01:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boudjerra Soltani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bouteflika]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muslim Brotherhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boosted by the success of peers in the region, a leading Algerian Islamist party plans to leave the ruling coalition before April’s parliamentary election to press for constitutional reforms to limit the powers of the president. “We are for a parliamentary system, not a presidential system as is the case now, and we will campaign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7650&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mauritania: Earth&#8217;s Bulls-Eye</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/mauritania-earths-bulls-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If readers ever get into space, they may  find themselves looking for Mauritania, or its enormous Richat Structure, sometimes called &#8216;Earth&#8217;s Bulls-Eye&#8217;: “This prominent circular feature in the Sahara desert of Mauritania has attracted attention since the earliest space missions because it forms a conspicuous bull’s-eye in the otherwise rather featureless expanse of the desert. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7646&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AQIM Links Dump, Very Short Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/aqim-links-dump-very-short-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AQIM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maghreb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mauritania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this post goes up in the late evening it will include, for now, a few links on recent complications related to AQIM and its offshoot, Jama’at at-Tawhid wa al-Jihad fi Gharbi Ifriqiyya (MOJWA). Some thoughts on these links form the last few weeks may come in the morning; the focus will be on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7637&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coffin and Libya&#8217;s War in Chad</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/the-coffin-and-libyas-war-in-chad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kal</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Imtidad Blog has a translation of an excerpt from التابوت (The Coffin) Abdallah al-Ghazal&#8217;s 2003 novel on the Libya-Chad &#8216;Toyota War&#8217;. The conflict over the Azou Strip on the southern border between Libya and Chad was a major point in Libya foreign policy in the 1970s and 1980s, with several clashes and interventions from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7631&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Chafik Ben Guesmia on Algeria</title>
		<link>http://themoornextdoor.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/guest-post-chafik-ben-guesmia-on-algeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a comment from Algerian journalist (with Liberte) Chafik Ben Guesmia on some of the dynamics at work in Algeria over the last decade or so. It is reposted here as a guest post so readers can benefit from its insights upfront.  This is to witness the fact that took place in Algeria in 1988, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themoornextdoor.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3064297&amp;post=7627&amp;subd=themoornextdoor&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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