The African Union condemned a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday and demanded a return to constitutional government in the West African nation.
"The African Union ... condemns the coup d'Etat and...
Mauritanian soldiers overthrew the elected president in a coup on Wednesday and announced the formation of a military ruling council in the northwest African Islamic state.
Soldiers seized...
Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup d'etat on Wednesday, the president's daughter Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi said.
"The security agents...
Mauritania's new prime minister named a cabinet late on Sunday, handing powerful posts to figures who served the authoritarian administration ousted in a 2005 coup and bringing in Islamist...
The first of thousands of black Mauritanian refugees returned home from exile in Senegal on Tuesday, nearly two decades after they fled bloody ethnic purges in their Arab-dominated Saharan nation....
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