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Map of Mauritania Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as flawed, but October 2001 legislative and municipal elections were generally free and open. Mauritania remains, in reality, a one-party state. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black minority population and the dominant Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.


Mauritania Telecommunication*
Telephones - main lines in use:
 26,500 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
 35,000 (2001)
Telephone system:
 general assessment: limited system of cable and open-wire lines, minor microwave radio relay links, and radiotelephone communications stations (improvements being made)
domestic: mostly cable and open-wire lines; a recently completed domestic satellite telecommunications system links Nouakchott with regional capitals
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) and 2 Arabsat
Radio broadcast stations:
 AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 1 (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
 1 (2002)
Internet country code:
 .mr
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
 5 (2001)
Internet users:
 7,500 (2001)

  *Mauritania telecommunications data is from CIA World Factbook. 

 

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