| 5,663,500 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Student protesters demonstrated against government plans to arabize the school system. |
| 5,663,504 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Mauritanian authorities have foiled an attempt by suspected Al-Qaeda (AQIM) members to dig their way out of a jail in the capital, a prison source said Thursday. |
| 5,663,594 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Mauritania on Friday calling for better living conditions and more jobs. |
| 5,663,507 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Thousands of Mauritanianspoured outonto the streets of Nouakchott yesterday to protest against the current ruling polity. Mauritania's civil society, including opposition parties, has been demonstrating against the living conditions. |
| 5,663,511 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
One day after the lower house, Mauritanias Senate yesterday gave its backing to new counter-terrorism legislation. The law allows the security services to conduct house searches and intercept information with authorisation from a judge. Additionally, the authorities will now have the power to grant immunity from prosecution to former terrorists who assist in the prevention of a planned attack. |
| 5,663,514 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
The Mauritanian Ministry of Interior and Decentralisation has rejected licensing a political party that was applied for by a group of black Mauritanians under the name of "The Rally for Dialogue between Ethnicities in Mauritania". The ministry justified its decision that it is a project for a "factional" party, according to the privately-owned daily Al-Akhbar on 18 July. |
| 5,663,518 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
A court in Mauritania has sentenced a Malian to 12 years of hard labour for his role in kidnapping three Spanish aid workers who were seized last year and held by al Qaeda's North African wing.The kidnapping was part of a string of attacks that have raised the profile of al Qaeda's North African wing, which is known as AQIM and numbers a few hundred fighters. |
| 5,663,522 |
16.6162 |
-7.2535 |
Mauritania |
|
Mauritanian troops early Wednesday killed a suicide bomber trying to ram a vehicle crammed with explosives into a military barrack at Nema in the country's east, a senior military official said. |
| 5,663,526 |
16.6162 |
-7.2535 |
Mauritania |
|
The Mauritanian army was fighting militants of Al-Qaeda's north African wing Friday near the border with Mali's Timbuktu region, a Malian security source told AFP. Kills 12 AQIM loses 8 soldiers. |
| 5,663,530 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Mauritania is to extradite 20 Malian citizens accused of drug trafficking and giving support to the north African Al-Qaeda network, a judicial source said Tuesday. |
