ArmedConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
5,663,534 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania A court in Mauritania has condemned three alleged al-Qaida members to death, including the former leader of the African nation's local terrorist network.
5,663,538 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Police in Mauritania arrested a Tunisian directly after he was acquitted in a trial in which three Al-Qaeda-linked militants were sentenced to death for murder, his lawyer said Sunday.
5,663,543 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania A Cooperation in the fight against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has gained new impetus with the setting up of the first ever joint patrols between the Malian and Mauritanian armies.
5,663,546 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Five Mauritanians have defected from the armed radical movement Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) to surrender to the Mauritanian army, military sources said on Thursday.
5,663,550 16.6162 -7.2535 Mauritania Mauritanian troops killed two men and captured seven during a raid on drug traffickers in the desert bordering Mali, the army said Wednesday, with the gang wanted for trading with Al-Qaeda.
5,663,554 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania The leader of a Mauritanian anti-slavery body and several activists were in police detention Wednesday after a protest demanding the freeing of two girl slaves in the capital, police said.
5,663,558 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Unknown assailants failed to abduct a European employee of the International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, said a report by Mauritanian news agency Al-Akhbar on 19 December.
5,663,562 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Six Mauritanian anti-slavery militants have been charged with assaulting security forces during a demonstration to demand the release of two girls held in bondage, a judicial source said Monday.
5,663,565 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania A Mauritanian set himself on fire in an anti-government protest Monday, witnesses said, in a copy of a self-immolation that unleashed weeks of protests that toppled the Tunisian president.
5,663,569 15.4975 -6.9506 Mauritania Three armed members of Al-Qa'idah Maghreb escaped arrest by presidential security guards last night following extensive fire exchange that lasted almost an hour. The three men managed to escape by jumping out of their car which sped towards the security guards and exploded leaving three dead and 13 wounded, Mauritanian independent news agency Al-Akhbar reported on 2 February.