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Mauritanian opposition announces boycott of presidential poll

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Mauritania's main opposition parties announced on Sunday they would boycott a scheduled June 21 presidential election, in a move that threatens to...

Mauritania sets presidential election date

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Mauritania will hold presidential elections on June 21, according to the presidency, despite a lack of agreement on the reform of election...

Exercise Saharan Express 2014 begins

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Naval forces from the United States along with African and European maritime partners on Thursday commenced the fourth annual multinational exercise Saharan...

Mauritanians march over Koran desecration

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Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted anti-government slogans in Mauritania's capital on Monday after local media reported Korans were desecrated in...

African nations form G5 to work on Sahel security, development

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The leaders of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso agreed on Sunday to create a regional organization to strengthen cooperation on...

Islamists poised to enter parliament as Mauritania goes to polls

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Voters in Mauritania went to the polls in Saturday in legislative and local elections expected to bring a once-outlawed Islamist party into...

Mauritania must wipe out persistent slavery, U.N. watchdog says

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Slavery is still being practiced in Mauritania, even though the West African country made it a crime against humanity last year, a...

Mauritanian opposition parties to boycott legislative election

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Mauritania's main opposition parties announced a boycott of November's legislative election on Friday after talks with the government over preparations for the...

Senegal orders Super Tucanos

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Senegal's Air Force has ordered three A-29 Super Tucano light attack and training aircraft from Embraer, becoming the fourth African nation to...

Flintlock 2013 brings African forces together

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Promoting regional co-operation and developing inter-operability among Trans-Sahara partner nations was the focus of this year's Exercise Flintlock in Mauritania. Fourteen African, European...

Embraer delivers first Mauritanian Super Tucano

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Embraer has delivered Mauritania's first Super Tucano trainer and light attack aircraft, as part of a deal announced earlier this year. The...

Mauritania says air strikes hit Al Qaeda in Mali

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Mauritania said yesterday its air force hit al Qaeda targets in northern Mali, but Malian official sources reported the attacks had misfired...

Rural Mauritanians set to benefit from nearly $18 million in UN...

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The United Nations agency helping the rural poor announced today it is awarding almost US$18 million in loans and grants to Mauritania...

Rioting erupts in Mauritanian capital over census

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Demonstrators threw rocks and set fire to cars in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott yesterday during a protest against a government census which...

One dead in Mauritania protest

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One man was killed when Mauritanian police fired live rounds and tear gas grenades at protesters who were opposing a government census...

Mauritanian army compensates abuse victims

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Mauritania has began compensating people mistreated by the army, after a decision by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to compensate black military...

Mauritanian Air Force trainer crashes; pilot killed

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A Mauritanian Air Force trainer aircraft has crashed, killing the pilot whilst he was taking off on a training mission. According to the...

Parliamentary Question: Dirco: Ministers trips

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Mr SJ Masango (DA) to ask the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation: 1.With reference to her recent trips to (a) Sudan and...

Mauritania gains a new MPA

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The Spanish government has donated an Airbus Military C212-200MP SAR (search and rescue) aircraft to Mauritania so it can tighten security on...

Mauritania adopts new anti-terrorism law

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Mauritania has adopted a new anti-terrorism law, a move designed to give its security forces greater powers in the fight against al...

Mauritania cuts diplomatic ties with Israel

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Mauritania has fully severed diplomatic ties with Israel, the northwest African country's foreign minister said, completing a process that began last year. Mauritania,...

Al Qaeda releases Frenchman in prisoner swap

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Al Qaeda's North African wing released French hostage Pierre Camatte, Mali's government said yesterday, in an apparent prisoner swap that has angered...

Mauritania recalls ambassador to Mali in al Qaeda row

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Mauritania has temporarily recalled its ambassador to its northwest African neighbour Mali in a row about Mali releasing a Mauritanian Islamist from...

Al Qaeda claims Italians kidnappings in Africa: report

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Al Qaeda's North African wing said it was responsible for the kidnapping this month of an Italian couple in Mauritania, Al Arabiya...

Mali seeks contact with captors of Spanish hostages

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Mali believes three Spanish aid workers who went missing in Mauritania last month are being held on its territory by al Qaeda's...

Spanish and French hostages well: Al Qaeda web

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Al Qaeda's wing in North Africa said three Spanish hostages and a Frenchman they are holding were in good health and being...

Al Qaeda group claims Africa kidnappings: Al Jazeera

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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said today it was responsible for the kidnapping in November of three Spanish aid workers in...

Spanish aid workers not found-Mauritania

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Mauritania has denied reports that it has located three Spanish aid workers abducted at the weekend, the Spanish government said.   "The Mauritanian authorities...

Al Qaeda may have kidnapped Spaniards: minister

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Three Spanish aid workers who disappeared in Mauritania appear to have been kidnapped by a group linked to al Qaeda, Spain's Interior...

Three Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania

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Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped in Mauritania yesterday, officials said of an attack that will heighten security fears in the West...