Timeline of Nouakchott
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nouakchott, Mauritania.
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-Nouakchott highway constructed.[2]
- 1958:
- Nouakchott site designated new capital of Mauritania; building of city begins.[1][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:
- 1965 - Population: 15,000 (estimate).[6]
- 1966 - National School of Administration built.[1]
- 1968 - Racial unrest.[1]
- 1970:
- École normale supérieure de Nouakchott (school) founded.
- Population: 25,000.[7]
- 1973 - ASC Police (football club) formed.
- 1974:
- 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).[5]
- 1976:
- June: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces.[1]
- Espoirs Nouakchott football club formed.
- 1977:
- 1978:
- Coup d'état. Overthrow of long-time President Moktar 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, and National Library built.[1]
- Population: at least 232,000.[5]
- 1983 - Stade Olympique (stadium) opens.
- 1984 - Coup d'état. Overthrow of President Mohamed 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 Calame newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1995:
- "Bread riot" occurs.[1]
- Al-Akhbar and Nouakchott Info newspapers begin publication.[4]
- 1996 - Coup attempted and suppressed.[1]
- 1999 - Grands moulins de Mauritanie in business.
- 2000 - Population: 558,195.[12]
21st century
- 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 President Maaouya 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 (school) established.
- 2012 - 12 July: Airplane crash occurs at Nouakchott International Airport.
- 2013 - Population: 958,399.[18]
- 2014:
- March: Protest over Holy Koran desecration.[19]
- Maty Mint Hamady becomes mayor of the city.
- Administrative regions Nouakchott-Nord, Nouakchott-Ouest, and Nouakchott-Sud created.
- 2016:
- Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport opens, Nouakchott International Airport closes.
- June: 2016 Arab League summit held in Nouakchott.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 Pratt 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 and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Anthony G. Pazzanita (2008). Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (3rd ed.). United States: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6265-4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Mauritania: Directory". Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Theunynck 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 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 français). 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
Bibliography
- in English
- Serge Theunynck (1983), Brian Brace Taylor (ed.), "A Sterilizing Capital: Nouakchott", Reading the Contemporary African City, Singapore – via ArchNet Free access icon
- 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 (1977), Nouakchott, capitale de la Mauritanie (in français), Université de Paris IV
{{citation}}: Check|author-link=value (help) - Isyakha Diagana (1993). Croissance urbaine et dynamique spatiale à Nouakchott (PhD) (in français). Lumière University Lyon 2. Free access icon
- Philippe Tanguy (2003). "L'urbanisation irrégulière à Nouakchott: 1960-2000". Insaniyat (in français). 22. Algeria: Centre de recherche en anthropologie sociale et culturelle. ISSN 2253-0738 – via Revues.org. Open access icon
- 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 français). 115 (647): 69–91. doi:10.3406/geo.2006.21315. S2CID 192197599 – via Persee.fr. Free access icon
- Anne-Marie Frérot (2006). "Nouakchott, du puits nomade à la ville des pétroliers. Risques et représentations". Maghreb-Machrek (in français) (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 français). doi:10.3917/autr.045.0073. ISSN 1278-3986 – via Cairn.info. Free access icon
- Armelle Choplin (2009). Nouakchott: au carrefour de la Mauritanie et du monde (in français). Paris: Éditions Karthala. ISBN 978-2-8111-3166-1.
External links
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- "(Nouakchott)". AfricaBib.org. (Bibliography)
- "Nouakchott, Mauritania". BlackPast.org. United States.
- "(Nouakchott)". Directory of Open Access Journals. UK. (Bibliography of open access Open access icon articles)
- "(Nouakchott)" – via Europeana. (Images, etc.)
- "(Nouakchott)" – via Digital 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 from the original on 14 February 2006.
Images
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Satellite view of Nouakchott, 2001.
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Nouakchott and sand dunes, circa 2002.
