| 5,663,291 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
5 members of Al Qaeda arrested in Nouakchott. |
| 5,663,295 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Protests at the American embassy lead to heightened security. |
| 5,663,299 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Protests outside of prison gates for the release of Islamist leaders are dispersed by police with batons and tear gas. |
| 5,663,303 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Mosque ambushed; Al Qaeda ties feared. |
| 5,663,307 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
20 women injured and arrested during raid of mosque. |
| 5,663,311 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Students protest against visit of Israel's FM. |
| 5,663,315 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Students protest visit of Israel's FM. Dispersed with batons and tear gas. |
| 5,663,319 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Police used teargas to disperse a rally Monday by Islamists protesting the detention of their religious leaders and teachers in a major crackdown by the Mauritanian government as part of its anti-terror battle. As many as 200 people, most of them students, gathered outside of the prison in the capital Nouakchott. |
| 5,663,323 |
14.98 |
-12.46 |
Mauritania |
|
MDFC rebels attacked members of the Senegalese military. Fatalities: 1 soldier |
| 5,663,327 |
23.13 |
-7.42 |
Mauritania |
|
An Algerian group known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), claimed responsibility for a weekend attack on a Mauritanian military barracks, Lemgheity, in which at least 15 soldiers and 9 militants were killed. |
