Suspected al Qaeda militants ambushed a Mauritanian army patrol on Monday in the desert north of the West Saharan Islamic state, and 12 soldiers were missing, feared either killed or captured,...
The European Union aid chief wants the bloc to suspend its development aid to Mauritania and freeze the bloc's single biggest fishing deal over the political unrest in the African country, a...
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...
Al Qaeda's North Africa wing has called for a holy war in Mauritania to establish Islamic rule after a military junta toppled the country's elected president.
"Raise the banner of jihad and let us...
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...
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