Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Nouakchott, Mauritania - A third political party, the Alliance for Justice and Democracy-Movement for Reconciliation (AJD/MR), announced here Tuesday that it would not be represented in the future government of the ruling junta in Mauritania.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The chief of the African Union (AU) Commission Monday urged Mauritania's coup leader to restore constitutional order in the country, said reports reaching here from Nouakchott. Jean Ping, Chairman of the Commission of the AU, arrived late Sunday at Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital, with the aim of defusing the political crisis in the country, which witnessed a bloodless military coup nearly three weeks...
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Nouakchott, Mauritania - A third political party, the Alliance for Justice and Democracy Movement for Reconciliation (AJD/MR), announced on Tuesday that it will not be represented in the future government of the ruling junta in Mauritania.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi this month threatens the future of democracy in Africa if left unchallenged, the deposed president’s son said on Sunday.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi this month threatens the future of democracy in Africa if left unchallenged, the deposed president's son said on Sunday.
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi this month threatens the future of democracy in Africa if left unchallenged, the deposed president’s son said on Sunday. Go to news source
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Source: Reuters (Updates with top AU diplomat's comments, paragraphs 9, 13-14) By Hachem Sidi Salem and Gabriela Matthews NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The military coup that toppled Mauritanian President Sidi ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Ousted Mauritanian Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghev had been put under surveillance in the village of Achram, 450 km southeast of the capital Nouakchott, reports said Friday. "Waghev had been transferred in the night of Thursday to the central city of Moudjeria, but he demanded to be driven to his native village of Achram," Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Dahmane, deputy general secretary of the former...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania | The prime minister ousted in Mauritania’s recent coup is being held in his native village under house arrest, police and a relative said Friday.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Source: Reuters By Hachem Sidi Salem and Gabriela Matthews NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Mauritanian police arrested a former prime minister on Thursday after he led one of the northwest African country's biggest ...
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Nouakchott, Mauritania - The chairperson of the Mauritanian Human Rights Association (AMDH), Fatimata M'Baye, has protested Tuesday's police violence against union activists, including the secretary general of the country's Workers' Free Trade Unio (CLTM), Samory Ould Bey.
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Ben's place of the week is Nouakchott, Mauritania.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Nouakchott, Mauritania - Nineteen members of the Mauritanian Parliament have established a new political pressure group, Parliamentary Group for the Preservation of Democracy (PGPD), ostensibly to ensure that democratic norms and ethoes are not wiped off following the military putsch in the country.
Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Nouakchott, Mauritania - Mauritania's future after the 6 August coup that brought to power a High State Council of 11 officers led by General Mohamed Oul d Abdel Aziz made the local media headlines this week. Noting the risks of international isolation of Mauritania, the daily Biladi said that "for the first time ever, the country may be considered plague- stricken among the committee of nations",...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - The United States threatened more cuts in aid to Mauritania on Friday if the country’s new military rulers did not reinstate its first freely elected president.
