Where are you Maaouiya, we really missed you today:

A recent national poll, organised by many of the best professional in the field, shows that more than eighty two percent of the Mauritanian population now prefer former president Mr Maaouiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya to the current president Mr Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallah. And when we made our own investigation, we found out that the main reason behind this trend is the fact that, during Maaouiya rule, the business was much more flourished than today and everyone’s confident in the future was very high.

But today the real-estate market which was considered by almost all the Mauritanian as a safe investment for the short and long term period, collapsed. And as a result of this situation the cost of the average house in Nouakchott, downgraded from 14.000.000 UM two years ago to less than 9.000.000 today which's affected baddly all the Mauritanian.

And the rising of the food price throughout the country, and sometimes twice of what it used to be especially in the countryside and the big cities like Nktt, Ndb, Nema, Aioune, Kiffa...etc.

Finally, all that together made people sceptical about the future, and sometimes even afraid of the spread of the insecurity situation in the country due to the famine, starvation and a weak government.

Thank you Mr Abbas :

I’d like to thank Mr Abbas for what he is doing for our country, and especial his idea of financing an annual High school championship.
Firstly, this championship encourages our youth in their early age to start practicing sports which’s a good thing for their bodies, because at least it would prevent them from many of the 21st century disease, and in general help forming a healthy citizen, ready to confront 21st century’s challenges.

Another important advantage our country will gain from this annual High school championship is the fact that many young people who wouldn’t succeed in their studies could later become a sport professional player instead of going to the street and become a real danger to the society.

Everyone knows that the sub-Saharan African countries like us, faces three major hurdle in their way to become a developed countries, and these three hurdles are the diseases, poverty and education. By financing this annual event Mr Abbas helped our country to defeat one of these three major enemies which’s the disease and in the meantime gave a good backing to our fight against illiteracy.

Mr Abbas made a good sacrifice which’s worth recognition. Because, instead of putting his money in an account abroad, and gain more interest, he preferred to spend it on us in order to make our youth have good time and good health, that’s why for me we all should show him respect and recognition.

In the end I’d like the other Mauritanian businessmen to do like Mr Abbas and start investing in the development of our common country.
Thanks again.

Our enemies stroke again :

The killing of Mohamed Ould Mohamed El Hadj on the left side of the Senegalese River (Senegal side), prove to us once again, that we as a nation have a lot of enemies around us, who don’t want us to develop and become strong and stable nation.
There fore I’d like to tell the patriot citizen that they should pay more attention today, and avoid being trapped again by those who are struggling night and day in order to create a new rift between our brave people who accepted to heal the wounds of the past in a peaceful way.
This murder is a stark reminder of the nineteen eighty nine event’s cause, so we should deal with it in a very smart manner.
Here, i would like to offer my deep condolences to the family of the victim Mohamed Ould Mohamed El Hadj.

The rampage of the European Union ship around our ocean coast:

Three days ago a European ship killed at least 24 Mauritanians fishermen, who were fishing inside the authorized zone which’s specified for them by the government. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my condolences to the families of the victims, and call upon Mr President to take quick and firm action against those who would be found guilty of these awful murders in order to deter them from doing the same thing in the future. I would like also to add one thing which’s “we may be economically bankrupt country, but that doesn’t mean that our citizen don’t have any value nor we consider business before them.

Sport in Mauritania:

Here, I’m no talking about professional sport that brings titles and trophies for rich countries, which can afford to buy drug, medicines and blood injection materials for doping their athletes in order to win. And that’s why today the winner in all the international competition is always the big liar and big cheater.
So, I urge African countries that need desperately money, to avoid investing in professional sport because it is only wasting money.

But i'm going to talk about the individual sport, or personal one that keeps body in a good shape and good health.Unfortunately in this kind of sport, we are the less sport’s men in the world. So it’s even very rare today to see Mauritanian practicing. And that’s causes many major health problems like the spread of dubieties, strokes,. ..Etc among young generation, which‘s leading to the destruction of many lives and happy couples.
That’s why it’s becoming very urgent nowadays for all of us especially public media to start a national campaign, for rising people awareness about the importance of the sport, and the health problems they can avoid by practicing sport, which's cheaper than medicines.

To mister President,

Mr. President, I beg you to stop wasting our country's money by making unnecessary tripe. Before asking charities, i think it would be better for you to manage what we have already. During the two past months you travelled at least three times abroad, which costs our country more than 300.000.000 Ouguiya. All that money would have great importance if it was spent in the poor community of our nation. Before you, Maaouiya rarely goes abroad, and that never affected our economy, nor frozen our good relationship with the world.

The democracy according to Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi style:

Until a few months ago our economic was very prosperous, and every citizen feels confident about the future. But today what’s going on, on the ground is the opposite thing. The livelihood of almost all the population is threatened and the unemployment rate is rising. While our president is wasting money and time doing something, which doesn’t have any importance for our country and our citizen, like
Stretching our troops, throughout the Atlantic Ocean in search for suicidal illegal migrant from sub-Saharan Africa,
Pledging to send many combatant regiments to Darfour for peace keeping mission,
Turning blind eye to the multinational company which’s flocking these days in our country and let them do what they like freely (hiring foreigners, mistreated the citizen, which may undermine our national peace).
We want a concrete action like during Maaouiya rule (building school, road and vital infrastructure), not talk, void gesture and total reliance to western country like African sub-Saharan way of rule which only brought disaster to them.
Instead of inviting the government to a meeting in NDB, which will cost a fortune, it would be better to put that fortune in a concrete project which will have a good affect on the life of the population of NDB.
During Maaouiya rule the major westerns donors were against us, and always refused to finance our main project, but that never affected us, and we always felt satisfied and in a better economical situation than our sub-Saharan African neighbours, which always beneficed of the help of those donors. During Maaouiya rule we never experienced insecurity, famine or desase like what’s our neighbours experienced and still live, during Maaouiya rule our youth never think about illegal migration to Europe or any other place in the world, all that because our economic situation was prosperous. Today we have a lot of concern : firstly about our present and worse about our future and that caused by a president and prime minister who believe totally on western style of rule.
We really missed you Maaouiya the great of all time.

The current regime discriminate Haratine:

The president should be fair with all the community including Haratine, why I say that because since the first day of his rule, he behaves like our late president Mokhtar ould Daddah who never appointed during his 18 years rule, any Haratine as a Minister or in any other job of responsibility. Perhaps Mokhtar have had his reason in those days, but those reasons no longer valid today, and totally unacceptable.
And as a patriot, I ask our president for a comprehensive fair treatment to all the communities.

Refugee:

Are they really Mauritanian?
Do we should ask them for forgiveness?
The right question I think is, can they prove to us, that, they were mistreated by our government during 1989 events, if so; I think we all should ask them for forgiveness. And in Islamic point of view, we should also pay them back every thing they have lost during those bad days.

Why ?

It’s generally agreed that destruction is the worst thing any nation on earth can face. Unfortunately, in the past few days, people from different regions went on a rampage throughout our beloved country. They destroyed and looted every thing in their way including, national resources (government buildings) and also in many cases civilian properties. Why? “They are complaining about the worsening of their daily life which they expected to become better with the new elected government”. This is the answer of almost all the political parties especially those who are against the current government. But for me this kind of reaction is neither helping those people in dealing with their daily plight nor helping our government especially these days, as we all know the government is working nowadays night and days in order to bring an end to one of the thorniest question our country ever face since the independence (the refugee). Instead of pushing toward more destruction of our country the opposition should try with the government and find a solution which aims to alleviate our citizen ordeal in short and long term.
Today the world day after day becomes more dangerous and crueler and we should all bring our stone in order to survive.
Only by debating our own problem calmly, we can find the good solution, neither by violence nor by spreading bad messages.

Israel:

Israel is a Jew country, and everyone today has his own judgement of Israel-Palestinian war.
But we should bear in mind that Moise, Jesus and Mohamed (Peace and Blessing be upon all of them) are all God messengers, and God sent them all in order to enlighten and guide us(the human being) to the straight path, and everyone of them had a story in Jerusalem.

As a Muslim my religion teaches me when I should fight and when I should not, and teaches me again that I shouldn’t force the others to follow my believe and believe on Mohamed. And i think the only way to convey the Islamic teachings is by its good practice and not by talk.
That’s why I support a good diplomatic relation between my country Mauritania an Israel.
Our Prophet Mohamed during his life time sometimes had a bad relationships with Jews and sometimes good relationships with Jews, and we should follow him and ask when he cut the relation with them and when he established it. Unfortunately some Muslim uses the Islamic teachings in his own interest.

Tintane:

A month ago, the town of the Tintane faced a huge flood. Two men were found dead and many homes and shops were destroyed. More than three hundred families who live in the worst affected area fled to the save place outside the town.
In spite of the support of friendly countries and international NGOs, the government still need more help especially financial one, in order to deal with this crisis, and to build a save home for those who still live in the camp one month later, and who lost everything.

The Mauritanian participation in the Arabic poetry contest:

During the current contest, which aims to select the Prince of the Poets, in the Arabic world? Almost all the Arabic world was astonished, by the beauty of the Mauritanian poem, and particularly those Arabic countries who deny until now, the Mauritanian genuine Arabic roots.
Every one who watched the contest agrees that the poem of Mohamed Ould Taleb who is representing Mauritania, is better than all his contender's poems.
Even if he fails to win the title, I hope that we as Mauritanian, our belonging to the Arabic world will be sealed forever, and we will be spared from the smear campaign which aims to take us off the list of Arabic country.
In the end, I would like to think Mohamed Ould Taleb and Abou Chagé for all what they are both doing now and what they have done until now, for our beloved country Mauritania.

Jobs in Mauritania again:

In Mauritania,the fact that we hire only our cousins, every time we have the role of recruiting new employees, makes some companies, and even government ministries called after some tribes names. And this kind of misuse of national property is very bad because it strengthen the role of the tribes in the society. And this is against the new elected government policy; which aims to tackle the discrimination and the slavery in Mauritania. Because we all know that if the tribes are very strong the slavery appear again, and many other bad things like, the feeling of alienation and discrimination.
That’s why I ask the new president and his team to take a swift measure in order to fight this injustice and embolden our national unity by stopping injustice and national resources destruction.
Why I said national resources destruction because today if you visit any government ministry you will see people who are hired and very well paid while they don’t know their jobs, and even sometimes never use any PC. Because the employers recruit only their cousins many well qualified young men stay jobless and that is also a national resources destruction.

Jobs in Mauritania:

In Mauritania there is no recruitment by competition, and the only way to get a job is the family intervention, so if you don’t have someone of your relative who occupies a very good place in a company or in a government, you’ll never get any job whatever your qualification (this is a general truth today).
But what makes things look dreadful is that, there are some citizens who are almost not represented at all in the government and in all the national companies, because many years ago they were prevented from going to school (for some reason very known). And the fact that they are not very well represented create a hurdle before their sons today, even if they are very well qualified they will never access any decent job, and that’s why I think positive discrimination or affirmative action should be applied in Mauritania if we really want to offer an equal chance for all the citizens.

Toward those who make money of the tragedy of these refugees

Firstly, I ask them to help the government in his current efforts. And secondly i think that as long as this government is working very hardly to resolve this problem they should avoid every thing which can undermine its efforts.
I know that they were right when they stood against this injustice seventeen years ago, and their fight was always just in my point of view, because their community was unfairly targeted and pushed away from their own country. But today the government wants to put a good end to this issue, and they should help it, because without their help and support no thing could be realised, and I thing their family and children are tired of living under tent and without any decent shelter.

We are Mauritanian and we love our country, that’s why we should unite in order to build our country.
Meanwhile a policy which makes all the citizens feel equal before the law, and have the same chance of success, is needed. Unfortunately today some races and ethnics, feel that they are discriminated against in their own country, and i think that the government should work hard in order to make such ideas vanish forever.

Mauritanian refugee in Senegal and Mali

For me, the Mauritanian government should resolve this problem very quickly and pay back those who lost their wealth during this painful tragedy. They are Mauritanian and they were mistakenly targeted during the events of 1989, as a backlash of the dispute between Senegal and Mauritania.
I think every good citizen should participate in his own side in these ongoing general efforts which aim to bring this tragedy to a good end.
As long as this issue remains without a fair end, no one can predict any good future for our beloved country. In addition, such awful injustice may trigger many bad things for our country like the intervention of foreign countries which can lead a destabilization of the country and even civilian war like what is unfolding in many other countries.
We should bear in mind that today our weak and poor country; need every citizen, and the return of these refugees will have a very good effect on our crumbling economy.
Thanks.

Greetings

We are so happy today because we are going to start to share our own ideas and thought about our beloved country mauritania by using english. We wellcome everyone who can express him self in english to join this 24h debate about our national issues like slavery, refugees, jobs, oil...etc.