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| Mauritania: President wants urgent measures to keep prices down | |
| 2011-01-15 | |
| [Ennahar] Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has asked his government to "take urgent measures" to "keep prices down" of foodstuffs, according to a report by the Cabinet on Friday. The country has known for some time, soaring prices, particularly sugar, oil and milk powder, much criticized by the opposition.
The announcement comes amid rising prices of basic commodities has been the source of deadly riots in neighboring Algeria, which left five people dead and 800 maimed last week. Moreover, Tunisia is experiencing since mid-December unprecedented revolt against unemployment of young graduates and the regime of Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, who made 66 dead in one month according to a human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... NGO's. On Thursday in a district of Nouakchott, schoolchildren demonstrated against rising prices of basic commodities. And the Coordination of the democratic opposition (COD) organized a march Thursday afternoon and a rally attended by several thousand of people in the Mauritanian capital. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 urgent measures aka rationing. Everyone remembers "wage & price" controls don't they? Wasn't that fun? Talk about your excuse for the gov't to run everything... Where do Mauritanian refugees go? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2011-01-15 10:39 |