Vincent Fertey

Mauritania’s coup leaders have announced they will appoint a government to run the country until new elections.

Leaders of a military coup in Mauritania said they would hold ”free and transparent” presidential elections ”in the shortest time possible”.

Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several army officers.

Mauritanian security forces recaptured five suspected al-Qaeda militants on Wednesday, including a fugitive accused of killing four French tourists, officials said. The December…