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In Mali, the president of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of former rebel movements from the north, was assassinated on Tuesday morning, April 13. Sidi Brahim Ould Sidatia was shot dead near his home in Bamako by two still unidentified men. The shock is still great two days after the murder of Sidi…

He was a personality from northern Mali. Sidi Brahim Ould Sidati, current president of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), was also Secretary General of the Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA). After the murder on Tuesday in Bamako, people are wondering about the perpetrators of the crime. as reported from Bamako, Serge…

Lawyers for former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz condemned Thursday night at a news conference in Nouakchott what they consider to be a violation of their client's constitutional rights. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour SalemThe lawyers, who held their first press conference since the indictment of the…

Mohamed Ould Matali, an influential figure in the Nordic region, was appointed special adviser to the president of CNT, the body that plays the role of legislator, during the transition in Mali after the coup last month in August last week. However, Mohamed Ould Matali is under UN sanctions because of his alleged links to organized crime in northern Mali, which he has always denied.…

This Saturday, November 28, was the sixtieth anniversary of Mauritania's independence. It was November 28, 1960. Independence was proclaimed within the model new capital Nouakchott by Mokhtar Ould Daddah. Mohamed Aly Chérif was Secretary-Normal of the Presidency below Moktar Ould Daddah, from 1969 till the coup in 1978. He then spoke out specifically in opposition to the repression of Negro-Mauritanians, between 1989 and 1991. Mohamed Aly Chérif is a superb witness in latest many years in Mauritania and is visitor at…

Mauritania celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its independence this Saturday, November 28. It was November 28, 1960, after 60 years of French colonization. Independence declared in Nouakchott by President Mokhtar Ould Daddah. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah was then 20 years previous. Former International Minister President Ould Daddah, former Particular Consultant of the UN Secretary-Normal for West Africa, appears to be like again on the nation's previous many years. He is a visitor at Charlotte Idrac's. .

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…

Opponent and Mauritanian politician Moustapha Ould Limam Chafi, targeted by an international arrest warrant issued by the regime of former Mauritanian President Ould Abdel Aziz, returned on Sunday, October 18, after eleven years in exile. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour SalemAfter eleven years of exile, the opponent…