The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Nouakchott - Dozens of senior security officers were replaced or moved to other positions in Mauritania, officials said Saturday, in response to the kidnapping of three Spanish aid workers. Those being shuffled or moved out of the forces are said to ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Nouakchott - Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel-Aziz on Wednesday dismissed the head of the country's national police force, a senior official said. Abdel-Aziz replaced his close associate, Colonel Ahmed Ould Bekrine, with Colonel Anjagha Jani...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Three Spanish aid workers abducted Sunday night have been moved to Mali, a high-ranking Mauritanian official said Wednesday. The Spanish government meanwhile said it was trying to determine the exact location where the hostages ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Three Spanish aid workers abducted Sunday night had been moved to Mali, a high-ranking Mauritanian official said Wednesday, adding a further twist to contradictory reports on the fate of the hostages. The abductors were criminals ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they had located three Spanish aid workers abducted by suspected al-Qaeda members last week, police told the German Press Agency dpa. The Spanish government said it could not confirm ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they had located three Spanish aid workers abducted last week, police told the German Press Agency dpa. Military officials had begun negotiations with the hostage-takers, who were tra...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Nouakchott - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they have determined the location of three Spanish aid workers being held hostage, police told the German Press Agency dpa. Military officials had begun negotiations with the hostage-takers,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Nouakchott - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they had located three Spanish aid workers abducted last week, police told the German Press Agency dpa. Military officials had begun negotiations with the hostage-takers, police said. ...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Why do European and North American aid agencies, amid all these kidnappings, keep sending their workers to these countries is beyond me. Nouakchott, 30 Nov. ( AKI ) - Three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania by militants linked to Al-Qaeda, Spain's interior minister said on Monday. "It all suggests that it is a kidnapping. If so, and I believe it is, it all appears to be a kidnapping...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Mauritanian security forces on Monday said they had launched a massive manhunt for three Spanish aid workers abducted the previous night. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said everything points at the Algerian-b...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Al-Qaida group suspected of kidnapping two men and a woman from Spanish NGO travelling in convoy Spain's foreign ministry today confirmed that three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in Mauritania, probably by a group affiliated to al-Qaida that has been targeting westerners in recent years. The two men and a woman from a Spanish NGO, Barcelona Acción Solidaria, were taken yesterday when...
New English Review/The Iconoclast (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
MADRID (Reuters) - Three Spanish aid workers who disappeared in Mauritania on Sunday appear to have been kidnapped by a group linked to al Qaeda, Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said. "Although we still can't be completely sure of anything, everything indicates that it was a kidnapping, and, if so, as I fear it was, everything indicates that it was a kidnapping by AQIM, al Qaeda...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Nouakchott/Madrid - Mauritanian security forces on Monday said they had launched a massive manhunt for three Spanish aid workers abducted the previous night. Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said everything points at the Algerian-b...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
NOUAKCHOTT/MADRID (Reuters) - Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped in Mauritania on Sunday, officials said of an attack that will heighten security fears in the West African desert republic where al Qaeda-linked gunmen operate.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Unknown assailants attacked a group of Western tourists in the West African country of Mauritania Sunday, according to diplomatic sources in the capital Nouakchott.
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