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Mauritania: Yacoub Ould Dahoud – A Hero

Written byAmira Al Hussaini
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Posted 23 January 2011 22:34 GMT

Mauritanian blogger Nasser Weddady writes about his country's own Bouazizi – Yacoub Ould Dahoud, who died yesterday after burning himself in front of the presidential palace in Nouakchott on January 17.

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