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- 1 2 3 Harouna Abou Demba at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Mauritania" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 7. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
- ↑ Harouna Abou Demba at Soccerway
- ↑ "Mercato : Harouna Abou Demba Sy deuxième recrue du FC Martigues" (in French). Martigues. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ↑ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "Total Africa Cup of Nations Egypt 2019". CAFOnline.com.
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