Tag: Mauritania
Senegal to buy electricity from Mauritania
Mauritania is to begin providing energy-starved Senegal with electricity within two years, both sides announced Thursday after a summit between…
Mali war disrupts cocaine supply to Europe
PARIS(AFP) – France’s intervention in northern Mali against Islamist fighters involved in lucrative drug-running has disrupted cocaine supply to Europe…
Blatter, FIFA president visits Africa
The president of World football governing body (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, today began a six-day trip to Africa that will take…
Shot Mauritanian leader back home
Thousands of supporters welcomed Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz back from France, where he spent more than a month…
Mauritanians want truth on president’s shooting
Mauritania’s opposition on Monday demanded a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the shooting which wounded President Ould Abdel Aziz…
Army claims shooting Mauritanian president in error
NOUAKCHOTT(AFP) – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot and “slightly wounded” Saturday when an army unit accidentally fired…
Mauritania extradites Gaddafi’s spy chief
Mauritanian authorities have handed over Muammar Gaddafi’s ex-spy chief to Libya nearly five months after he was arrested for entering…
Mauritania teargas protesters urging leader quit
Mauritanian police on Wednesday broke up a fresh anti-regime protest as hundreds of youths gathered to demand President Mohamed Ould…
Al-Qaeda Kidnaps German In Nigeria
Al-Qaeda’s north Africa branch said Wednesday it was holding a German engineer kidnapped in Nigeria two months ago, and that…
Hostage Deaths: Abductors Claimed ransom paid
Plans to free two Western hostages were well underway and some ransom paid by their families when they were killed…
Boko Haram: 200 Chadian Fighters Arrested In Kano
At least 200 people have been arrested after last week’s bombings and shootings in Kano city, and most of those…