Mauritania News

For the second time in three days, police in Mauritania have used clubs and tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling for the re-instatement of the country's president, who was deposed in a military coup ...

It is a hot night in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott and at the Savana Cafe young men talk of the coup that overthrew a recently elected president, and while they argue they agree on one point: there is no ...

Nouakchott, Oct 7 Mauritania governing military board accepted to have talks with African Union on the constitutional order in the country, in the middle of tensions generated after repressing demonstrators ...

The African Union's ultimatum to Mauritania's new military leaders to free ousted President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and return the country constitutional rule expires Monday.

Mauritanian opposition parties were set Tuesday to defy a ban on demonstrations to keep up pressure on the military junta, which let pass an African Union deadline to reinstate the ousted president.

Police in Mauritania's capital have used tear gas to disperse scores of protesters calling for the release of the president ousted in August's coup.

CYCLING adventurer Daniel Harman is now more than 5,000 miles into his charity trip from Steyning to South Africa.

Some of the 229 African immigrants aboard a Spanish coast guard ship as they arrive at Tenerife.

T HE African Union move to restore constitutional government in Mauritania has been opposed by the coup leader, who has declared his readiness to remain in office after October 6, which the regional bloc gave ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday stressed the need to reinforce the UN system to bolster its performance.

Mauritanian newspapers this week commended the M onday ultimatum given by the African Union to the ruling junta, the Supreme State Council , for the country's return to constitutional legality by 6 Oc t ober.

Officials say a 13-year-old boy has died from wounds received in a grenade attack at a Mexican Independence Day celebration, bringing the death toll to 8. The Michoacan state Attorney General's Office says ...

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union has given the coup leaders in Mauritania a deadline of 6 October 2008 to restore the constitutional order in the country, through the unconditional ...

Alleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania's newly-installed defence ministry on 20 September.

NOUAKCHOTT * Mauritania's anti-coup coalition yesterday declared two days of national mourning for 12 people killed in an alleged Al Qaeda attack, after the ruling junta called for three days of mourning.

Mauritanian security forces on Saturday found the mutilated bodies of 12 soldiers who were said to have been abducted last week by an Al-Qa'ida-affiliated group.

Twelve Mauritanian soldiers, who were abducted in an attack on their patrol claimed by Al Qaeda, have been found dead with their throats cut, a senior Mauritanian officer said on Saturday.

Armed forces in Mauritania have begun an operation aimed at eliminating the presence of al-Qaida in the African country, a military source says.

In a country that imports about 70 percent of its food, and where the UN estimates more than one million suffer from chronic malnutrition, some donors fear an extended embargo on development aid may hit not ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania : Al-Qaida's North Africa branch purportedly claimed responsibility Wednesday for ambushing an army patrol in Mauritania and kidnapping 12 soldiers whom officials initially reported had ...