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Mauritania

Population: 3.2 million
GNI: $2300 million
Debt: $2000 million
Overview: Voters hope that President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and his technocratic ministers will improve public services and cut inflation after services and cut inflation after their 2007 election win. The security forces are braced for more Al Qaida attacks.

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  • 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 SERENITE

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 ...

  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

Go north, Ould Taya!

Domestic concerns take second place as a confident President redraws diplomatic policy

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