Mauritania's new ruling military junta named a former ambassador to Belgium and the European Union as prime minister on Thursday.
Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, named in a decree published by state...
Mauritania's opposition candidates said yesterday's presidential
election had already been marred by fraud and voter intimidation
just hours after polling began in the northwest African desert
state.
Mauritanians were to vote Friday in the most hotly contested
presidential election since independence, with the incumbent
Maaouiya Ould Taya, in power for nearly two decades, facing a
record five...
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