Does Mauritania's Facebook-Planned Rally Signal The Beginning Of The End?
Mauritania today became the latest nation to have demonstrations organized via Facebook, albeit very low key compared to other countries in northern Africa.
Mauritania became the latest nation to have demonstrations organized via Facebook, albeit more peacefully and on a smaller scale than other nations have experienced.
Reports of the mostly student protesters holding an overnight sit-in on Mauritania’s streets have grown in number from “dozens” in some of yesterday’s news reports to what Reuters today calls up to 1,500 beneath a headline saying “hundreds.”
Reuters quotes Mocktar Mohammed Mahmoud, a social worker who said he got involved in the protests through Facebook, where posts have demanded the resignation of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz:
The president has to respect his people.
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