Mauritania arrested several military officers on Monday in an alleged assassination plot against President Maaoya Sid’Ahmed Ould Taya, military sources said. There was no immediate confirmation or denial from the West African nation’s government.
A swarm of locusts has stripped the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott bare of greenery. Agricultural experts warned on Thursday that the desert nation could face famine unless voracious swarms of the insects spreading south across the Sahara are brought under control very rapidly.
”I trust that God almighty will free my wife from the yoke of slavery,” says Cheikhna Ould Beilil, a middle-aged Mauritanian man, fighting back the tears. Ould Beilil’s story constitutes rare testimony to the continued practice of slavery in the northwest African Islamic republic, despite claims by President Maaouya Ould Taya’s government that it has all but been wiped out.
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/ 30 December 2003
Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah has been released from prison after receiving a suspended prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the current head of state, Maaouiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya. The five-year suspended sentence effectively bars him from mounting a fresh challenge through the ballot box.
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/ 30 December 2003
Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah has been released from prison after receiving a suspended prison sentence for plotting to overthrow the current head of state, Maaouiya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya. The five-year suspended sentence effectively bars him from mounting a fresh challenge through the ballot box.