Word: mauritania
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...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...
King Mohammed, who claims the rocky Mauritania desert south of Morocco as his own, was annoyed last week because France agreed to give Mauritania its independence. Mohammed promptly ordered the closing of two French consulates near the Algerian border. The announced reason was the recent French bombardment of two Moroccan villages. A more compelling, if unstated, reason was that these consular districts enabled the French to keep tabs on the movement of F.L.N. men and arms across the border...
Cyprus is the 15th new nation to be born this year.* Two more African nations (Mauritania and Nigeria) should be on their own before the year is out. All this brings the number of sovereign states to 102, even when the cold-war divided twins (the two Germanys, two Chinas and two Koreas) are counted as only three nations. If last week's split-up between the two halves of the 16-month-old Mali Federation-the onetime French Sudan and French Senegal-proves permanent, the count may soon...
...Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta, and Niger, which are loosely grouped into the Council of the Entente; Chad, French Congo, and the Central African Republic, which make up the Union of Central African Republics; and Gabon. Last week the last member of the Community, the desolate Islamic Republic of Mauritania, formally obtained from De Gaulle an agreement granting full independence in November...
...long as we have life and strength, we shall avoid the mistakes, the fanaticism and the demagoguery which seem to be the lot of newly independent countries," he insists. And by 196.3, with MIFERMA shipping out iron ore at the rate of 6,000,000 tons a year, Mauritania will be in business...