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Mauritania risks instability if its wealth is not better shared: UN expert on extreme poverty

May 11, 2016 | Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, today said that Mauritania's continuing stability in a volatile region risks being undermined unless the benefits of growth are more evenly distributed.

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