Mauritania News
-
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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)
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
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
read more.. -
Police and demonstrators clashed in the Mauritanian capital Thursday after protests against a controversial census left one person dead earlier in the week.
A police spokesman said the demonstrators "had not sought permission for their march and the police intervened to uphold the law."
Tear gas was used to break up and disperse
read more.. -
One man was killed on Tuesday when Mauritanian police fired live rounds and tear gas grenades at protesters opposing a government census effort they say discriminates against blacks.
The violence underscores deep-rooted tensions between the black and Arab populations of the West African
nation, which straddles the Sahara.
"We regret that six
read more.. -
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz called for closer ties with China on Monday during a visit to the Asian country, the official AMI news agency reported.
"The Mauritanian government wants more infrastructure and bigger involvement of the CTCE company in Mauritania's development," the agency quoted the president as saying, referring to the China Tiesiju Civil
read more.. -
Nouakchott — In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is turning to several new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.
The new strategies follow a period that focused on training for smallholder farmers, the introduction of mechanisation for large-scale production, as well
read more.. -
The authorities in Mauritania must revoke jail sentences given to four anti-slavery activists who protested against the enslavement of a 10-year old girl, Amnesty International said today.
The four men, who belong to an anti-slavery NGO, were arrested on 4 August on charges of "unauthorized gathering" and "rebellion". They were yesterday given six-month suspended sentences by
read more.. -
A Mauritanian court on Monday sentenced an anti-slavery activist to three months in prison, while eight others accused of "rebellion" were acquitted, a judicial official said.
The nine members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA) had been charged with "unauthorised gathering and rebellion", after they organised a sit-in protest
read more.. -
A Mauritanian court will rule in the case of nine anti-slavery activists accused of "rebellion" on August 22, a judicial source said on Thursday.
"The magistrates court trying the nine activists began deliberation on Wednesday night. The verdict will be announced Monday," the source said on condition of anonymity.
The nine members of
read more.. -
Port Louis - All six ministers from the finance minister's party quit the cabinet in Mauritius on Tuesday in protest against the arrest of the health minister by an anti-corruption watchdog.
Finance minister and leader of the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), Pravind Jugnauth, said his colleague Santi Bai Hanoomanjee was innocent of charges that she had
read more.. -
Port Louis - Six ministers in Mauritius, including the finance minister, resigned from the government on Tuesday following the arrest of the health minister over graft charges last week, local radio reported.
All the ministers are from the Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), led by Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth, which formed an alliance with the ruling Labour
read more.. -
Members of Al-Qaeda's north African branch on Tuesday attacked an army base near Bassiknou in southern Mauritania close to the border with Mali, a military source told AFP.
"Many terrorist vehicles took part in the attack. The national army followed them and took the initiative against them," the source said on condition of anonymity.
read more..
0
TOPICS
Filter by Country
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Zimbabwe
- Guinea
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Somalia
- Algeria
- South Africa
- Angola
- Tanzania
- Burundi
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Sudan
- Mali
- Congo Dem Republic
- Ethiopia
- Mozambique
- Morocco
- Gabon
- Togo
- Central African Republic
- Cameroon
- Senegal
- Equatorial Guinea
- Congo
- Libya
- Liberia
- Rwanda
- Chad
- Tunisia
- Comoros
- Niger
- Madagascar
- Swaziland
- Uganda
- Sierra Leone
- Namibia
- Burkina Faso
- Malawi
- Botswana
- Mauritania
- The Gambia
- Zambia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Eritrea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Benin
- Mauritius
- Djibouti
- Seychelles
- Lesotho
- South Sudan
- Cape Verde
- Western Sahara
