Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi
latest news & developmentsAU slaps sanctions on Mauritania junta
The African Union imposed sanctions on Thursday on the junta that overthrew the government and seized power in Mauritania last August.
Coup leader’s refugee promise
The new military council has pledged that it will hold free and fair elections. But the African Union has suspended Mauritania’s membership.
Mauritania coup chief leads march through capital
The army general who successfully toppled Mauritania’s government staged a show of force on Thursday.
Lawmakers quit Mauritania’s ruling party
Forty-eight members of Mauritania’s Parliament announced on Monday that they were resigning from the ruling party to form a new political group.
French family of five shot in Mauritania
Gunmen shot dead four members of a French family on Monday, including at least two children, and badly wounded the father in south-west Mauritania, the French embassy in…
Mauritanian president orders food stockpiling
Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi ordered villages to stockpile food to help cushion the effect of rising inflation, his economic adviser said on Thursday. About…
Mauritania postpones editor’s slander hearing
A hearing in the trial of a Mauritanian editor of independent daily El Bedil Athalith, charged with slandering the first lady, was on Monday postponed indefinitely. The Arabic…