This study examines the effect of non-farm labour participation on poverty reduction in rural Mauritania. Farm households with more land and livestock participate to a greater extent activities compared smaller or cattle. We poverty's relationship terms incidence as well intensity severity poverty. The is first highlight contribution non-agricultural sector areas apply probit, propensity score ...

Maternal mortality ratios in sub-Saharan Africa remain high and worrisome. Moreover, maternal health indicators have remained poor despite large efforts the last two decades. This study assesses patterns by age country. The demographic survey data were used for study. Based on results, countries with lowest adult female rate include Senegal, Comoros, Rwanda, Mauritania, Sao Tome Principe, Gambi...

After an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Southern Mauritania in 1987, entomologic studies were conducted in a bordering region in Sénégal from 1991 to 1996 to identify the sylvatic vectors of Rift Valley fever virus. The virus was isolated from the floodwater mosquitoes Aedes vexans and Ae. ochraceus. In 1974 and 1983, the virus had been isolated from Ae. dalzieli. Although these vectors diffe...

This essay will attempt a broad outline of the strategies of State employed in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The nomadic population there is organized into kinship groups, or corporated groups called qabâ'il (sing. qabîla) or ‘tribes.’ —even if the ‘tribe’ is not a ‘total society’, but —as Emanuel Marx suggest (in this volume)—“it is merely one of a variety of organizations in which the n...

Martin Eiden, Ariel Vina-Rodriguez, Bezeid O. El Mamy, Katia Isselmou, Ute Ziegler, Dirk Höper, Susanne Jäckel, Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Hermann Unger, Baba Doumbia, and Martin H. Groschup Author affiliations: Friedrich-LoefflerInstitut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany (M. Eiden, A. Vina-Rodriguez, U. Ziegler, D. Höper, S. Jäckel, A. Balkema-Buschmann, M.H. Groschup); Centre National de l’Elevag...

To the Editor: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) was first described in Crimea in 1944 and in the Congo in 1969. Since then, many cases in humans have been reported from different regions (1–3). The disease is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected tick or by direct contact with blood or tissue from infected humans and livestock. We report an unusual case of acute subdural h...