MAURATINA

POPULATION/HOW LARGE IS THE COUNTRY/PHYSICAL FEATURES

• The population is 3.98 million
• It is 398,000 sq. miles
• Larges masses of desert

ETHNICITIES

WARS

• Western Sahara October 30th 1975 – September 6 1991 (15 years, 10 months and 1 week) Result Spanish withdrawal under the Madrid Accords (1976); Mauritanian retreat; Polisario Front – Morocco ceasefire (1991)
• Senegal Border (1989-1991)

NATURAL RESOURCES

• iron ore, gypsum, copper, phosphate, diamonds, gold, oil, fish, iron ore, fish and fish products, and gold.

INDUSTRIES

• Mining
• Fishing

TYPE OF GOVERNMENT

• The type of government is democracy

SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENT

CURRENT LEADER(S)/COUNTRIES FLAG/CURRENT NEWS ARTICLE

• Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Mauritania, President

AGRICULTURE/CLIMATE

• Relations to farming
• desert; constantly hot, dry, dusty

EDUCATION

• Established by the French colonial administration. The first schools were largely concentrated in the sedentary communities of the Sénégal River Valley. In 1950, the first teacher training school was established at Boutilimit, and in 1957, the secondary school in Rosso also began training teachers. Black Africans enrolled in large numbers. As a result, the overwhelming majority of public school teachers were black, and the nation's secular educated class was dominated by black people.