| 5,663,644 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritania Justice Minister, Abidine Ould Kheir has for the first time acknowledged that 13 Salafist militants who were convicted and detained at a prison in Nouakchott had been transferred to an undisclosed location. The families of the prisoners had earlier held sit-in demonstrations in the capital Nouakchott in a bid to extract more information on their whereabouts. |
| 5,663,647 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
A Mauritanian court has sentenced six Mauritanians and a Tunisian to prison terms for their connection to Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot. |
| 5,663,650 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Tens of members of the revolutionary committees in Mauritania have demonstrated in front of the Qatari embassy in Nouakchott shouting hostile slogans against the State of Qatar and its emir Shaykh Hamad Bin-Khalifah Al Thani on account of his stances in support of the Libyan revolutionaries. |
| 5,663,654 |
15.8656 |
-5.9468 |
Mauritania |
|
Fighting erupted between Mauritania's army and suspected Islamists in the east of the country on Tuesday, with witnesses reporting heavy and automatic weapons fire and military aircraft flying overhead. (10 killed) |
| 5,663,657 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Hundreds of Mauritanian students protested late Monday against a deadly crackdown on anti-regime protests in Syria by President Bashar al-Assad's government. |
| 5,663,661 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
The accused were arrested on August 4 along with four others, during a sit-in in front of a Nouakchott police station against the enslavement of a 10-year-old girl. |
| 5,663,665 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Violent clashes broke out a short while ago between elements from the riot police and demonstrations from the Do Not Touch My Nationality Movement in front of the `Mauripost' building in the centre of the capital Nouakchott which left several people injured. |
| 5,663,669 |
16.1465 |
-13.49759 |
Mauritania |
|
Hundreds of black Mauritanians rallied against a census they see as racist Saturday, in protests that turned violent in some cities, and several arrests were made, sources said. In Kaedi, a city of about 60,000, hundreds took to the streets pillaging a courthouse and stores before setting fire to them. |
| 5,663,672 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
In the capital Nouakchott, about 100 black Mauritanians protested peacefully and handed over a letter outlining their demands to the police destined for the interior ministry which is in charge of the census |
| 5,663,676 |
15.5092 |
-12.8501 |
Mauritania |
|
Mauritanian police shot dead one man and wounded several others Tuesday while dispersing a rally against the country's census, which critics claim discriminates against black people, a security official said. |
