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Mauritania
Population: 3.2 mn.
GDP: 3.6 bn.
Debt: 2.6 bn.
Overview:

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will keep qualified western backing for his authoritarian regime premised on his fight against insurgents linked to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. Pro-democracy protests will grow as economic conditions remain poor. New investors will look at the gold, oil and uranium prospects. 

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  • Vol 51 No 19
  •  24th September 2010

Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics

For Niger, the crisis with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes as the military regime that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last February approaches the return of democracy.

  • Vol 50 No 15
  •  24th July 2009

Aziz's strong-arm vote

General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory in the 18 July presidential election confirmed that the former Bataillon de la Sécurité Presidentielle commander turned coup leader will reinvigorate the hopes of putschists across Africa. Although ...

  • Vol 50 No 1
  •  9th January 2009

Junta asks for time

Nouakchott is more dependent than ever on Arab donors

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 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
  •  11th May 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
  •  30th March 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
  •  1st December 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
  •  1st December 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 indepe...

  • Vol 46 No 14
  •  8th July 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 years...

  • Vol 45 No 17
  •  27th August 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.

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