Timeline of Nouakchott – Wikipedia
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nouakchott, Mauritania.
20th century[edit]
- 1903 – French military outpost built.
- 1908 – Military outpost abandoned.
- 1929 – French military outpost reactivated.
- 1952 – Rosso-Nouakchott highway constructed.[2]
- 1958
- Nouakchott site designated new capital of Mauritania; building of city begins.[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
- National Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies built.
- Population: 5,807.
- 1965 – Population: 15,000 (estimate).[6]
- 1966 – National School of Administration built.
- 1968 – Racial unrest.
- 1970
- 1973 – ASC Police (football club) formed.
- 1974
- Refugees from drought settle in Qsar Gadid.[7]
- 5th and 6th arrondissements created.
- 1975
- “25 miles of city streets were paved….Street lights were installed and bus service started.”[7]
- Convention centre constructed near city.[7]
- Population: 104,054 (of which 54,000 living in shanty towns).
- 1976
- June: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces.
- Espoirs Nouakchott football club formed.
- 1977
- July: City besieged by guerrilla Polisario Front forces again.
- Population: 134,704 (of which 81,467 living in shanty towns).
- 1978
- Coup d’état.
- ACS Ksar (football club) formed.
- 1979 – ASAC Concorde (football club) formed.
- 1980 – ASC Nasr Zem Zem (football club) formed.
- 1981
- 1983 – Stade Olympique (stadium) opens.
- 1984 – Coup d’état.
- 1986 – Friendship Port of Nouakchott opens.[3]
- 1987 – Racial unrest.
- 1988 – Population: 393,325.[3]
- 1989 – Curfew imposed in city after regional ethnic unrest.
- 1991 – 1 June: Windstorm.[8]
- 1994 – La Calame newspaper begins publication.[4]
- 1995
- “Bread riot” occurs.
- Al-Akhbar and Nouakchott Info newspapers begin publication.[4]
- 1996 – Coup d’état.
- 1999 – Grands moulins de Mauritanie in business.
- 2000 – Population: 558,195.[9]
21st century[edit]
- 2003 – June: Coup attempted and suppressed.[10]
- 2004 – Plague of locusts.
- 2005
- 2008 – Population: 846,871 (estimate).[11]
- 2011
- 2012 – 12 July: Airplane crash occurs at Nouakchott International Airport.
- 2013 – Population: 958,399.[13]
- 2014
- 2016
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Anthony G. Pazzanita (2008). Historical Dictionary of Mauritania (3rd ed.). United States: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6265-4.
- ^ a b c “Mauritania: Directory”. Africa South of the Sahara 2003. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 9781857431315. ISSN 0065-3896.
- ^ “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.
- ^ a b c d John Darnton (23 November 1976), “Thriving Capital Filling the Void In Mauritania”, New York Times
- ^ “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.
- ^ “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
- This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.
Bibliography[edit]
- in English
- Serge Theunynck (1983), Brian Brace Taylor (ed.), “A Sterilizing Capital: Nouakchott”, Reading the Contemporary African City, Singapore – via ArchNet
- 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
External links[edit]
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Satellite view of Nouakchott, 2001
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Nouakchott and sand dunes, circa 2002
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