Mauritania News
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Mauritanian news websites, the first to publish jihadist statements claiming a hostage attack in Algeria, death tolls and threats, have become a virtual mouthpiece for Islamist rebels in the Sahel. Amid a vacuum of information as the staggering hostage siege played out over the weekend, it was the website of the Nouakchott news agency ANI and the Alakhbar and Sahara
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Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz flies back to France Friday for medical tests less than a week after leaving, having undergone 40 days recovering from wounds received when a soldier shot him. "I must return to France tomorrow for more analyses and X-rays following an appointment made earlier by the doctors," the 55-year-old president told a press conference late
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The International Federation for Human Rights on Wednesday denounced extrajudicial killings, repression, torture and other rights abuses in Mauritania. “If, under the regime of (President) Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, people dare to exercise their rights, they are often victims of repression, arrest and imprisonment,” read a joint report with the Mauritania Human Rights Association published Wednesday. The rights bodies said
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Nouakchott - Opposition leaders in coup-prone Mauritania on Thursday called on the army to stay out of politics and demanded more information on the health of the country's absentee president. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a key ally of the West in the fight against al-Qaeda in Africa, was flown to France on 14 October, for treatment of a gunshot wound
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When the news spread that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania had been shot my reaction was, "it finally happened!" While many of the details of the shooting remain unknown, and some accounts are contradictory, for those who have followed Mauritania's politics since August 2005, it was only a matter of time before another attempt on his life was made.
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Nouakchott - A Mauritanian soldier said to have shot and wounded President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz by misadventure on 13 October has given his version of events on state television. "I was wearing a civilian T-shirt and I was with an officer, also wearing civilian clothes, when it happened," Lieutenant Elhaj Ould H'Moudy said on Sunday evening when he told
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Nouakchott - President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is "out of danger" and will remain at the helm of Mauritania while he recovers in France after being shot at a soldiers' checkpoint in what he said was an accident, the information minister said on Tuesday. The government initially said he had been only "lightly wounded", although sources have said he was
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Nsanje — For many women in Malawi's disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding. Twenty-four-year-old Chrissie Davie, a mother of four, saved two of her three children from drowning when water filled her house as she slept early this year. About 6,157 families lost their property, over a thousand hectares of crop fields were
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Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Aziz is to be flown to Paris for medical treatment Sunday after being shot by a military unit, sources say. Aziz's wound was not serious and his life is not in danger, officials say. The president was wounded in the stomach and has already been operated on in Nouakchott, a source told Reuters news agency, while
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Mauritanian authorities have handed over Moamer Kadhafi's ex-spy chief to Libya nearly five months after he was arrested for entering the country illegally, state television reported Wednesday. "Mauritanian authorities hand over ex-Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya," read a newsflash on the screen written in Arabic. An official source speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed that Al-Senussi had "effectively
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Nouakchott - Mauritanian authorities have charged Abdullah al-Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief, with attempting to enter the country on forged documents, a judicial source told dpa on Monday. Al-Senussi, who appeared on Sunday in a Nouakchott court amid heavy security, was remanded to the city's central prison on Monday, the source said. The long-time spy chief disappeared from Libya after
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Nouakchott - Thousands of Mauritanian opposition activists staged a march and sit-down protest in Nouakchott on Wednesday evening, calling for former coup leader President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to step down. The turnout was larger than on 02 May, when the demonstrators tried to occupy a square in the centre of the capital before being dispersed by security forces. At
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Nouakchott - Libya's vice premier says Mauritania's president has given him a "positive" response to Libya's request for the handover of Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief. Mustafa Abu Shaghour said on Tuesday he appreciated President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's "courageous position" toward Libya's extradition request for Abdullah al-Senoussi. Al-Senoussi was detained on Saturday in Mauritania. The International Criminal Court, France
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Abdullah al-Senussi, former spymaster of Libya's slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, was arrested in Mauritania, prompting calls Saturday for his extradition by Tripoli and Paris. The former intelligence chief and right-hand man to Kadhafi was arrested at Nouakchott airport after arriving on a regular flight from Casablanca in Morocco, a Mauritanian security source said. Senussi, 62, who is also wanted by
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Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Tuesday vowed to press on with attacks on "criminal elements" after a failed air raid in Mali on suspected members of Al-Qaeda's north African branch. "It's like this that we have responded to criminals ... by chasing them and hitting them hard," he said, adding: "They will be hunted wherever they are, relentlessly." The
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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has freed a Mauritanian paramilitary police officer it had held hostage since an attack on a gendarmerie station almost three months ago, officials said Saturday. "Ely Ould Moktar, kidnapped on December 20 from his unit in Adel Begrou, is now free and is in good health," said a statement from gendarmerie headquarters published by the
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A top businessman and a prominent critic of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz denounced on Friday an arrest warrant issued against him for supporting terror groups. Mauritanian national Moustapha Ould Limam Chafi told AFP he was preparing to sue President Abdel Aziz for defamation, while the country's opposition also condemned the warrant against him as outrageous. "Faced with this
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Geneva - More than a million people could face severe food shortages in Mauritania in the coming months, the Red Cross warned on Thursday as it launched an emergency appeal for almost €1.75m. Poor harvests caused by drought and rising prices severely reduced the availability of food for many, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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The Islamic Republic of Mauritania in the drought-ravaged Sahalian was severely threatened by climate change -- ever day. Thirty percent of the population lived close to the sea, which was being eroded by high seas. Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Amedi Camara told COP17 Mauritania came to Durban seeking protection from a disaster not of their making. Mauritania's soil
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Mauritanian police said Monday they had arrested two Western Saharan men suspected of kidnapping an Italian and two Spanish aid workers in Algeria in October. "The two men who kidnapped two Spaniards and an Italian in a Sahrawi refugee camp were arrested in their hotel in the town of Nouadhibou where they had been for 11 days," a police source
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Nouakchott - Mauritanian police used tear gas on Monday to disperse hundreds of blacks protesting against a population census they deem racist, wounding several, a spokesperson for the group said. The protesters were prevented from marching on the presidency to complain about the population count in which they claim that blacks alone are required to produce documents to prove their
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Mauritanian forces killed a top official of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during an air raid into Malian territory, a Mauritanian security source said. Mauritanian national Teyeb Ould Sidi Aly, "the mastermind of the attacks carried out by criminal gangs against our country since 2008," was killed Thursday in "bombing of enemy elements in the Wagadou," a forest in
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Most Sub-Saharan countries made doing business easier over the past year, but the African region is still the costliest and most complex in the world for entrepreneurs, the World Bank said in a report on Thursday. In its annual ranking of 183 countries, the bank found 36 of 46 Sub-Saharan African nations improved their business environment in the year through
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Mauritanian police have arrested 56 people, including 13 foreigners, in Nouakchott during clashes over a census between the security forces and young blacks, the interior ministry said Friday.
In a statement sent to AFP, the ministry said that the arrested foreigners "had a mission of organising the perpetrators of acts of vandalism and destruction of the
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Nouakchott - Demonstrators threw rocks and set fire to a car in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Thursday during a protest against a planned government census which critics say discriminates against blacks.
The riot followed similar protests in the south of the country on Tuesday in which a man was killed when police fired live rounds
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