Mauritania
| Population: | 3.1 million |
| GNI: | $2600 million |
| Debt: | $2000 million |
| Overview: | Coup leader General Abdel Aziz can expect tougher African, European and US sanctions after the junta announced unconvincing plans for elections in May. Economic pressures will mount due to lower revenues from oil and mining. |
news from Mauritania
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Found 11 articles.
- Vol 49 No 17
- 22/08/2008
Quiet coup
President Abdallahi's sacking of top soldiers led to the return of military rule after little more than a year of democracy
- Vol 48 No 10
- 11/05/2007
A break with the past
After the freest post-Independence elections, the government faces worsening social divisions and a troubled oil sector
- Vol 48 No 7
- 30/03/2007
Changement dans la sérénité
Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi squeaked to victory in Mauritania's 25 March presidential elections.
- Vol 47 No 24
- 01/12/2006
No win, no gain
The military regime gets the election result it wanted, with no party strong enough to govern
- Vol 47 No 24
- 01/12/2006
Investigation down under
Woodside Petroleum is Mauritania's largest foreign investor by far. It has sunk around US$1 billion into its Chinguetti offshore project, pumping the only oil between the North Sea and the Gulf of Guinea. Since last year's coup, Australia's biggest in...
- Vol 46 No 14
- 08/07/2005
Torturers beware
Politicians and officials accused of human rights crimes may think twice about visiting France, after last week's conviction of Mauritanian Captain Ely Ould Dah for offences committed in his home country. The Assize Court in Nîmes gave him ten y...
- Vol 45 No 17
- 27/08/2004
Taya's travails
President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya has turned the latest alleged coup plot, on 10 August, to his advantage, detaining Islamist leader Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour and a dozen senior military officers.
- Vol 44 No 20
- 10/10/2003
Warriors and marabouts
Nouakchott cracks down on Islamists and Arab nationalists ahead of November's elections
- Vol 43 No 18
- 13/09/2002
Saddam to Sharon
Arriving from Ethiopia as Africa Confidential went to press, the new Israeli Ambassador to Mauritania Ariel Kerem was summoned to present his credentials the day after landing in Nouakchott. During the 1991 Gulf War, Mauritania's Baathists backed Iraq so ...
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