Mauritania News

Mauritanian prosecutors on Tuesday called the brutal slaying of four French tourists a terrorist act and said security forces were hunting three men suspected of links to a regional al-Qaida terror network. via The Press Democrat

“All the elements lead one to think it was a premeditated act and apparently well prepared, with collaborators in Aleg who were tasked to assure the protection and organise the flight of the criminals”

Last week's murder of four French tourists in Mauritania and the assailants' subsequent flight had been meticulously planned, with the victims tracked for hours, a security official said on Sunday. via News24.com

Mauritanian authorities are still searching for three men who fled south toward neighbouring Senegal after a brutal Christmas Eve attack that killed four picnicking French tourists. via Channel 4

“This despicable act constitutes one of the gravest offenses in the eyes of Islam.”

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania : An Algeria-based terror network has claimed responsibility for the killing of soldiers in Mauritania, according to an audio tape played on an Arabic television station Saturday. via International Herald Tribune

The North African wing of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of four Mauritanian soldiers. via Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep

Three soldiers were killed Thursday by unknown assailants in Mauritania northern desert, military officials said. via The Orlando Sentinel

The Afghan government expelled two senior European diplomats Thursday over accusations that they held unauthorized meetings with Taliban militants, officials said. via Arizona Daily Star

Paris/Nouakchott, Mauritania - Five Mauritanian Islamists have been arrested in connection with the murder of four French tourists, the public prosecutor in Nouakchott said Wednesday, amid speculation that ... via Earth Times

Mauritanian officials say unknown gunmen have killed at least three government soldiers in an attack on a military post. via Voice of America

Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, has promised his French peer Nicolas Sarkozy that everything possible would be done to bring the killers of four French tourists to justice. via Al Bawaba

“It looks like what happened here is very sad indeed. Four girls are missing”

Gunmen kill four French tourists Gunmen killed four members of a French family during a robbery in eastern Mauritania, police said. via Turkish Daily News

Mauritanian prosecutors on Tuesday called the brutal slaying of four French tourists a terrorist act and said security forces were hunting three men suspected of links to a regional al-Qaida terror network.

Gunmen opened fire Monday on the tourists, who were members of the same family, while they were picnicking on the side of a road near Aleg, a small town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott, police said.

Though authorities initially thought the tourists had been robbed, subsequent investigations have shown they were not, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. Read more

Paris/Nouakchott, Mauritania - All four victims killed in an attack on a group of French holiday makers in Mauritania were adult men, the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. via Earth Times

Gunmen shot dead four French tourists in Mauritania in West Africa on Monday before fleeing, Al Jazeera television reported. via Reuters

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad held talks with Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdullah, the president of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in Mecca on Friday. via Tehran Times

The riders from the Repsol KTM team collaborated in the loading of medical supplies that the FundaciA3n Dakar Solidario will transport to Mauritania and Senegal The humanitarian project that started 3 years ago ... via Paddock Talk

“They do not go into the zoned areas. Their animals might, but they do not.”

Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. via IRIN

Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Second Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for a Waiver of Performance Criterion - Staff Report; Staff Supplement; ... via International Monetary Fund

Mauritania, an often-ignored country on the western periphery of the Arab world, surprised observers two years ago by undertaking one of the most forthcoming advances toward democracy in the region. via The Daily Star