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Mauritania

July 11, 2006In Mauritania, where local custom favors obese women and where girls are sometimes fattened up by being force-fed sweetened milk and millet porridge via a funnel, large numbers of women were attempting to lose weight for health reasons.
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The Christian Science Monitor

August 8, 2004Locusts were still plaguing Mauritania.
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Agence France-Presse


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