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The following is a
timeline of the
history of the
city of
Nouakchott ,
Mauritania .
20th century
1903 - French military outpost built.
1908 - Military outpost abandoned.
1929 - French military outpost reactivated.
1952 -
Rosso -Nouakchott
highway constructed.
[2]
1958:
Nouakchott site designated new capital of Mauritania; building of city begins.
[3]
Radio de Mauritanie begins
broadcasting .
[4]
1960:
Capital of newly independent Mauritania moved to Nouakchott from
Saint Louis .
AS Garde Nationale (football club) formed.
Palais de Justice (courthouse) built.
1961:
National Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies built.
Population: 5,807.
1965 - Population: 15,000 (estimate).
[6]
1966 - National School of Administration built.
1968 - Racial unrest.
1970:
1973 -
ASC Police (football club) formed.
1974:
Refugees from drought settle in Ksar Gadid.
[7]
5th and 6th arrondissements created.
1975:
25 miles of city streets were paved. Streetlights were installed and bus service started.
[7]
Convention center constructed near city.
[7]
Population: 104,054 (of which 54,000 living in
shanty towns ).
1976:
June: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces.
Espoirs Nouakchott [
es ] football club formed.
1977:
July: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces again.
Population: 134,704 (of which 81,467 living in shanty towns).
1978:
1979 -
ASAC Concorde (football club) formed.
1980 -
ASC Nasr Zem Zem (football club) formed.
1981:
1983 -
Stade Olympique (stadium) opens.
1984 -
Coup d'état . Overthrow of President
Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla .
[10]
1986 -
Friendship Port of Nouakchott opens.
[3]
1987 - Racial unrest.
1988 - Population: 393,325.
[3]
1989 - Curfew imposed in city after regional ethnic unrest.
1991 - 1 June: Windstorm.
[11]
1994 - Le Calame
newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1995:
"Bread riot" occurs.
Al-Akhbar and Nouakchott Info
newspapers begin publication.
[4]
1996 - Coup attempted and suppressed.
1999 -
Grands moulins de Mauritanie [
fr ] in business.
2000 - Population: 558,195.
[12]
21st century
See also
References
^
Sweco ; Nordic Consulting Group (2003),
Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links (PDF) , vol. 2: Description of Corridors,
African Development Bank and
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
^
a
b
c Anthony G. Pazzanita (2008).
Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (3rd ed.). United States:
Scarecrow Press .
ISBN
978-0-8108-6265-4 .
^
a
b
c "Mauritania: Directory".
Africa South of the Sahara 2003 . Regional Surveys of the World.
Europa Publications . 2003.
ISBN
9781857431315 .
ISSN
0065-3896 .
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 1965 . New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
^
a
b
c
d
John Darnton (23 November 1976),
"Thriving Capital Filling the Void In Mauritania" , New York Times
^
"Mauritanian President Overthrown in Military Coup" . Washington Post . 2023-12-21.
ISSN
0190-8286 . Retrieved 2024-02-20 .
^ Ap (1981-03-17).
"MAURITANIA REPORTS IT HAS FOILED AN ATTEMPTED COUP BY 2 EXILES" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-02-20 .
^
"LE COUP D'ÉTAT EN MAURITANIE Le colonel Taya : un nationaliste intègre et compétent" . Le Monde.fr (in French). 1984-12-14. Retrieved 2024-02-20 .
^
"Winds in Mauritania Kill 4" , New York Times , 2 June 1991
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2005 . United Nations Statistics Division.
^
"Mauritania profile: Timeline" .
BBC News . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
^
"Mauritanian Leader Under Fire" . Washington Post . 2024-01-26.
ISSN
0190-8286 . Retrieved 2024-02-20 .
^
"I'll Be Back, Vows Ousted Mauritanian Leader" . Arab News . 2005-08-09. Retrieved 2024-02-20 .
^
"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants" . Demographic Yearbook 2015 . United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
^
Al Qaeda suspects killed in Mauritania car blast , Reuters, 2 February 2011
^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants",
Demographic Yearbook – 2018 , United Nations
^
"Mauritania's Nouackchott hit by protest over Koran" , BBC News , 3 March 2014
This article incorporates information from the
French Wikipedia .
Bibliography
in English
Serge Theunynck (1983), Brian Brace Taylor (ed.),
"A Sterilizing Capital: Nouakchott" , Reading the Contemporary African City , Singapore – via
ArchNet
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza ; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Nouakchott, Mauritania".
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History . Routledge.
ISBN
0415234794 .
Nicola Pratt (2008), "Nouakchott", in Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper (eds.),
Cities of the Middle East and North Africa , Santa Barbara, USA:
ABC-CLIO ,
ISBN
9781576079195
Christian Vium (11 February 2016),
"Eye of the drought: high and dry in the Sahara – in pictures" , Guardian , UK (Photos of Nouakchott)
" 'The best solution? Move the Mauritanian capital': water on the rise in Nouakchott" , Guardian , UK, 25 July 2016
in French
External links
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Nouakchott .
Images
Satellite view of Nouakchott, 2001.
Nouakchott and sand dunes, circa 2002.