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Timeline of Nouakchott

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The following is atimeline of thehistory of thecity ofNouakchott,Mauritania.

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20th century

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1903 - French military outpost built.^[1]
1908 - Military outpost abandoned.^[1]
1929 - French military outpost reactivated.^[1]
1952 -Rosso-Nouakchotthighway constructed.^[2]
1958:
- Nouakchott site designated new capital of Mauritania; building of city begins.^[1]^[3]
- Radio de Mauritanie beginsbroadcasting.^[4]
1960:
- Capital of newly independent Mauritania moved to Nouakchott fromSaint Louis.
- AS Garde Nationale (football club) formed.
- Palais de Justice (courthouse) built.
1961:
- National Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies built.^[1]
- Population: 5,807.^[5]
1965 - Population: 15,000 (estimate).^[6]
1966 - National School of Administration built.^[1]
1968 - Racial unrest.^[1]
1970:
- École normale supérieure de Nouakchott [fr] (school) founded.
- Population: 25,000.^[7]
1973 -ASC Police (football club) formed.
1974:
- Refugees from drought settle in Ksar Gadid.^[7]
- 5th and 6th arrondissements created.^[5]
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 inshanty towns).^[5]
1976:
- June: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces.^[1]
- Espoirs Nouakchott [es] football club formed.
1977:
- July: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces again.^[1]
- Population: 134,704 (of which 81,467 living in shanty towns).^[5]
1978:
- Coup d'état. Overthrow of long-time PresidentMoktar Ould Daddah.^[1]^[8]
- ACS Ksar (football club) formed.
1979 -ASAC Concorde (football club) formed.
1980 -ASC Nasr Zem Zem (football club) formed.
1981:
- Coup attempted and suppressed.^[1]^[9]
- University of Nouakchott established.
- National Archives, andNational Library built.^[1]
- Population: at least 232,000.^[5]
1983 -Stade Olympique (stadium) opens.
1984 -Coup d'état. Overthrow of PresidentMohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla.^[1]^[10]
1986 -Friendship Port of Nouakchott opens.^[3]
1987 - Racial unrest.^[1]
1988 - Population: 393,325.^[3]
1989 - Curfew imposed in city after regional ethnic unrest.^[1]
1991 - 1 June: Windstorm.^[11]
1994 -Le Calamenewspaper begins publication.^[4]
1995:
- "Bread riot" occurs.^[1]
- Al-Akhbar andNouakchott Infonewspapers begin publication.^[4]
1996 - Coup attempted and suppressed.^[1]
1999 -Grands moulins de Mauritanie [fr] in business.
2000 - Population: 558,195.^[12]

21st century

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2003 - June:Coup attempted and completely suppressed after two days of heavy fighting.^[13]^[14]
2004 - Plague of locusts.^[1]
2005:
- June: Anti-government protest.^[1]
- 3 August:2005 Mauritanian coup d'état. Overthrow of long-time PresidentMaaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya.^[1]^[15]
2008 - Population: 846,871 (estimate).^[16]
2011:
- January:2011–12 Mauritanian protests begin.
- 2 February: "Al Qaeda suspects killed in a car blast."^[17]
- École supérieure polytechnique de Nouakchott [fr] (school) established.
2012 - 12 July: Airplane crash occurs atNouakchott International Airport.
2013 - Population: 958,399.^[18]
2014:
- March: Protest over Holy Koran desecration.^[19]
- Maty Mint Hamady becomes mayor of the city.
- Administrative regionsNouakchott-Nord,Nouakchott-Ouest, andNouakchott-Sud created.
2016:
- Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport opens, Nouakchott International Airport closes.
- June:2016 Arab League summit held in Nouakchott.

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^tPratt 2008.
^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 andUnited Nations Economic Commission for Africa
^^a ^b ^cAnthony 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.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^eTheunynck 1983.
^"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 ^dJohn 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. Retrieved2024-02-20.
^Ap (1981-03-17)."MAURITANIA REPORTS IT HAS FOILED AN ATTEMPTED COUP BY 2 EXILES".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved2024-02-20.
^"LE COUP D'ÉTAT EN MAURITANIE Le colonel Taya : un nationaliste intègre et compétent".Le Monde.fr (in French). 1984-12-14. Retrieved2024-02-20.
^"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. Retrieved17 September 2017.
^"Mauritanian Leader Under Fire".Washington Post. 2024-01-26.ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved2024-02-20.
^"I'll Be Back, Vows Ousted Mauritanian Leader".Arab News. 2005-08-09. Retrieved2024-02-20.
^"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

Bibliography

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in English

Serge Theunynck (1983), Brian Brace Taylor (ed.),"A Sterilizing Capital: Nouakchott",Reading the Contemporary African City, Singapore – viaArchNet
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

Jean-Robert Pitte[in French] (1977),Nouakchott, capitale de la Mauritanie (in French), Université de Paris IV
Isyakha Diagana (1993).Croissance urbaine et dynamique spatiale à Nouakchott (PhD) (in French).Lumière University Lyon 2.
Philippe Tanguy (2003)."L'urbanisation irrégulière à Nouakchott: 1960-2000".Insaniyat (in French).22. Algeria:Centre de recherche en anthropologie sociale et culturelle.ISSN 2253-0738 – viaRevues.org.
Armelle Choplin (2006)."Le foncier urbain en Afrique: entre informel et rationnel, l'exemple de Nouakchott (Mauritanie)" [Urban land in Africa: between the informal and the rational, the Nouakchott case].Annales de géographie (in French).115 (647):69–91.doi:10.3406/geo.2006.21315.S2CID 192197599 – viaPersee.fr.
Anne-Marie Frérot (2006). "Nouakchott, du puits nomade à la ville des pétroliers. Risques et représentations".Maghreb-Machrek (in French) (190).
Armelle Choplin; Ciavolella Riccardo (2008). "Marges de la ville en marge du politique? Exclusion, dépendance et quête d'autonomie à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)".Autrepart (in French).doi:10.3917/autr.045.0073.ISSN 1278-3986 – viaCairn.info.
Armelle Choplin (2009).Nouakchott: au carrefour de la Mauritanie et du monde (in French). Paris:Éditions Karthala.ISBN 978-2-8111-3166-1.

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toNouakchott.

"(Nouakchott)".AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
"Nouakchott, Mauritania".BlackPast.org. United States.
"(Nouakchott)".Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography ofopen access articles)
"(Nouakchott)" – viaEuropeana. (Images, etc.)
"(Nouakchott)" – viaDigital Public Library of America. (Images, etc.)
"(Nouakchott)".Internet Library Sub-Saharan Africa. Germany:Frankfurt University Library. (Bibliography)
"(Nouakchott)".Connecting-Africa. Leiden, Netherlands:African Studies Centre. (Bibliography)
"Nouakchott".Archnet. Archived fromthe original on 14 February 2006.

Images

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Satellite view of Nouakchott, 2001.
Nouakchott and sand dunes, circa 2002.

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