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Mauritania continues the search for kidnapped Spanish aid workers

The Mauritanian government is understood to have turned down Spain's offer of help from the Civil Guard for the moment

The government of Mauritania has, for the moment, turned down Spain’s offer to assign Civil Guard officers deployed in the country to combat illegal immigration to assist in the search for the three Spanish aid workers who were snatched by kidnappers on Sunday night. The two men and one woman are from the Catalan organisation Barcelona-Acciò Solidaria and were travelling at the rear of a convoy of vehicles delivering humanitarian aid to villages when they were taken on the road from Nouadhibou to the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.

It’s believed the kidnappers could be members of the North Africa branch of Al Qaeda, AQIM.

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Canarias
Man accused of child abuse admitted to Hospital in Tenerife

The accusations against the 24 year old proved to be false

The 24 year old man from Madrid, Diego Pastrana Vieco, who had been accused of raping and abusing his girlfriend’s three year old daughter, but who was later found to be innocent, has been admitted to hospital.

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National
World Aids Day in Spain 2009

One in three people carrying the HIV virus in Spain do not know they have it

It’s World Aids Day today, December 1, and here in Spain latest research shows that one in three with the HIV virus do not know they have it, and one in three say they would not be prepared to work with a colleague with Aids.

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Editorial/Opinion
Good Intentions in Spain

Typically Spanish editor, Howard Brereton, argues that good intentions are not enough

Looking through the list of ideas of the Government’s star piece of legislation, the much heralded Sustainable Economy Law, one cannot help but agree with all the individual ideas.

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Profiles
Aminatou Haidar

A champion of non-violent resistance in Western Sahara

The Civil Courage Prize award by the Train Foundation in New York honours ‘extraordinary individuals whose acts, undertaken deliberately, over time, have demonstrated “steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk”. The Foundation has sponsored this international prize since 2000 and seeks, to quote the Train Foundation itself, ‘to draw attention individually to some extraordinary heroes of conscience’.

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