Vol 53 No 21 | MAURITANIA Aziz’s power game 19th October 2012 President Abdel Aziz uses the threat of jihadist forces as a way of fending off pressure to hold elections and make concessions to opposition parties President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is navigating a delicate course across the region’s geopolitical minefield. Mauritania is not a member of the Economic Community of West African S...
Vol 53 No 21 | MAURITANIA Handling the opposition 19th October 2012 Despite official promises of elections, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s government has shown no serious signs of holding any. The opposition is not united and does not present ...
Vol 53 No 19 | MALIMAURITANIA Dead preachers poser 21st September 2012 The handling of the killing by Malian troops of 16 Islamic preachers, nine of them Mauritanian, threatens the delicate balance between the interim regime and the army, say Bamako s...
Vol 51 No 19 | MALIMAURITANIANIGER Niger, Mauritania, Mali: the politics 24th September 2010 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 democr...
Vol 50 No 15 | MAURITANIA Aziz's strong-arm vote 24th July 2009 General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory in the 18 July presidential election confirmed that the former Bataillon de la Sécurité Presidentielle commander turned cou...
Vol 50 No 1 | MAURITANIA Junta asks for time 9th January 2009 Nouakchott is more dependent than ever on Arab donors The ousting of civilian President Sidi Mohammed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a dawn putsch last August has prompted African, European and American sanctions against the new junta. The ...
Vol 49 No 17 | MAURITANIA Quiet coup 22nd August 2008 President Abdallahi's sacking of top soldiers led to the return of military rule after little more than a year of democracy With little fuss and no shooting, on 6 August General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz took power in Nouakchott, overthrowing the elected President regarded as his protégé, S...
Vol 48 No 10 | MAURITANIA A break with the past 11th May 2007 After the freest post-Independence elections, the government faces worsening social divisions and a troubled oil sector Hopes are high that the 19 April inauguration of Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi as Mauritania's first democratically elected President since Independence in 1960 will prove a b...
Vol 48 No 7 | MAURITANIA Changement dans la sérénité 30th March 2007 Independent candidate Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi squeaked to victory in Mauritania's 25 March presidential elections.
Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA No win, no gain 1st December 2006 The military regime gets the election result it wanted, with no party strong enough to govern There was no winner in the parliamentary elections on 19 November, the first since Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall's coup of 3 August 2005 (AC Vol 45 No 17). Since none of the partie...
