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from Middle East OnlineSlaves in Mauritania show optimism in country’s transition to liberate them, end poverty.By Daniel Flynn - NOUAKCHOTTBorn a slave, like his entire family, Matalla Mbreik toiled from dawn to dusk selling water and tending his master's flocks on the lonely fringes of the Saharan desert, until he could take no more."I still have the scars from my beatings, like my mother and sisters," said the 32-year-old Mauritanian, staring at the floor, dressed in flowing pale-blue embroidered robes. "All they gave us to eat were leftovers."After years spent dreaming of escape, Mbreik seized his chance two months ago when a Mauritanian army truck passed him searching for an oasis in the desert."I told them to shoot me rather than take me back to my master," said Mbreik, red-faced...
from The Angola PressNouakchott, Mauritania, Italy will grant Mauritania 4 million euros to help fund of a poverty reduction project under an agreement signed here by the two governments, an official source said here Thursday.Mauritania`s Interior Minister Mohamed Ahmed Ould Mohamed Lemine, and Italian Ambassador to Mauritania, Augustino Mathts, Wednesday afternoon signed the agreement for the funding.Execution of the project over the next three years will help improve the level of food security and reduce under-nutrition in two regions located in the north of the country (Inchiri and Adrar).It will also help to carry out many actions to open up some areas, improve nutrition and develop income-generating...