On June 8, 2003 a failed coup attempt was made against President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya by forces unhappy with his imprisonment of Islamic leaders in the wake of the US-led invasion of Iraq and his establishment of full diplomatic relations with Israel.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

In February 2006, the Mauritanian government denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former leader Maaouiya Ould Taya with Woodside Petroleum, an Australian company.

Born in Aoyama, Tokyo, the son of rice cracker shop owners, Enomoto fell under the spell of such stars of the Asakusa Opera as Taya Rikizo and Fujiwara Yoshie, and in 1922 he made his stage debut at age 18 as a chorus member of the Asakusa Kinryukan Theatre.

In February 2006, the Mauritanian government led by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former authoritarian leader Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya with Woodside Petroleum.

However, in February 2006, the Mauritanian government led by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall denounced amendments to an oil contract made by former authoritarian leader Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya with Woodside Petroleum.

The Parti Républicain Démocratique et Social ( PRDS ), led by President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, has dominated Mauritanian politics since the country's first multi-party elections in April 1992 following the approval by referendum of the current constitution in July 1991.

Colyus is skeptical and refuses to believe Dax and Odo at first, but they bring the villagers to the area by the tree and reenact what happened to Taya.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Asturias, the President of the Government of Spain ( i. e. the Prime Minister ) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and political representatives of all the parties took part in the inauguration, as well as some chiefs of state and world leaders like the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the King of Morocco Mohammed VI, the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, the President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade, the President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, the Prime Minister of Poland Marek Belka, the President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio, the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, the foreign policy chief of the European Union Javier Solana, the President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell and the ambassadors of the sixteen countries that lost citizens in the attacks.

Little public information exists, and it must be inferred from behind the scenes meetings between Mauritania and Israel in 1995 and 1996m said to be at the instigation of Mauritania's President Ould Taya ; the establishment of unofficial " interest sections " in the respective Spanish embassies in 1996 in the two capital cities, leading to ; the exchange of diplomatic representatives in each other's countries from 27 October 1999 ; that Mauritania had reversed its declaration by then.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

* Taya, Algeria

Attempted military coups and unrest instigated by Islamist opponents of the regime marred the early years of the 21st century, and the Taya regime's heavy-handed crackdowns were criticized by human rights groups.

Under Taya, relations between the two countries were correct, even though each accused the other of harboring exiled dissidents.

On August 3, 2005 the Mauritanian military, including members of the presidential guard, seized control of key points in the capital of Nouakchott, performing a coup against the government of President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya who was out of the country, attending the funeral of Saudi King Fahd.

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a career soldier and high-ranking officer, was a leading figure in the 2005 Mauritanian coup d ' état that deposed President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya.

* Mauritanian Military and Security Forces Overthrow Pro-Israel President, Ma ' aouya Taya – Al-Jazeerah. info

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

On December 12, 1984, Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya deposed Haidallah and declared himself Chairman of the CMSN.

Taya was never able to return to the country, and remains in exile.

Incumbent President Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya won reelection with 67. 02 % of the popular vote, according to the official figures, with ex-head-of-state Col. Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla finishing second.

Sid ' Ahmed Taya recognized the State of Israel some years before his fall, and started cooperating with the United States in antiterrorism activities.

A group identifying itself as the Military Council for Justice and Democracy overthrew the Taya government on 3 August 2005 during the absence of the President in Saudi Arabia.

Col. Mohamed Vall was once regarded as a firm ally of the now-ousted president Sid ' Ahmed Taya, even aiding him in the original coup that brought him to power, and later serving as his security chief.

It aimed to overthrow President Maaouya Ould Taya.

** In Mauritania, security forces open fire on opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya, killing at least five people.

She has three brothers, Ganden ( b. 1968 ), Dechen ( b. 1973 ), and Mipam ( b. 1978 ), and a half-sister named Taya ( b. 1960 ), from her father's previous marriage.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

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Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

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King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.