Mauritania

A detailed Summary of Mauritania

Mauritania is a poorly developed country with a low GDP (gross domestic products), which totally depends on agricultures and livestock, which have been lately demolished by droughts. It has a purchasing power partly of $2.8 billion, a GDP real growth rate of 4%, which is also low, and a GDP per capital of $1,200. Mauritania makes $390 million a year on iron ore, fish, and fish products. Mauritania imports $335 million a year and its commodities are foodstuffs, consumer's goods, petroleum products, and capital goods. The inflation rate has been increasing making it difficult for anyone to afford many products. Mauritania's few info structures are it's single railed railways, highways, ports, merchant marines, and small airports.

Mauritania is located in Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Senegal and Western Sahara. The people speak mostly Hansaniya Arabic (official language), Pular, Soninke, and Wolof. It's geographic coordinates are 20 00 N, and 12 00 W. It's neighbors are Algeria to its northwest, Mali to it's west, Western Sahara to it's northeast, Morocco to it's north, and to its south Burkina Faso. Its total area is about 1,030,700 sq miles and it's land area about 1,030,400 sq miles, whi

The branches of defense are Army, Navy, Airforce. National Gendarmerie, National Police, and Presidential Guards. But most are not used except for protecting the president and preventing riots. Mauritania has been one party military regime since a coup d'etat in 1978. The 1960 constitution was suspended and replaced by a provisional constitution made in 1980 by the military committee for National Salvation. This constitution was abandoned in 1981. In February 1980 Islamic principles were adopted as the basis for the legal system. Despite the official abolition of slavery in July 1980, it was reported by London based anti slavery society that at least 110,000 people still lived in slavery. Even though Mauritania is a poor country, its anti social welfare system provides elderly with good benefits. The benefits for unemployment and illness are reflected in its high infant mortality rates (about 127 per 1,000 live births) and its low life expectancies. Increasing students enrollment in primary and secondary schools have been rising steadily. Illiteracy is still reaming high though, at more than 70% of the adult population.

The food supply is considered adequate during normal years, but droughts create periodic ages of malnutrition, promoting the spread of disease as malaria, tuberculosis, measles, and influenza. The only major hospital is located in Nouakchott but there are not enough doctors to go around since the government has kept most of them in areas where they are not at risk of disease and death. Since Mauritania's independence from France in 1960 it's welfare and health has gone down dramatically and is now asking for the help of France once more but has got no real response from them. The capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott has suffered the most population increase for it was the closest to the water and food supply. Although it is a rather large city it has no real crime rate and the court systems are very basic. They have a three-tier system: Islamic courts, special courts, and state security courts in the process of being eliminated from lack of an organized process.

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