DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 8 | MAURITANIA Ould Abdel Aziz's trial for grand corruption sets precedent 11th April 2023 Former President has ducked questions about the origins of his US$70 million personal fortune The groundbreaking trial of ex-President and coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz opened in Nouakchott on 6 April with his pleading not guilty to charges of illicit enrichment in a ... READ FOR FREE
Vol 61 No 17 | MAURITANIA Don't you know who I am? 27th August 2020 Ex-President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has just returned home after a week of detention and interrogation by police over allegations of corruption during his 11 years in office. It i...
Vol 61 No 8 | MAURITANIA Ambition runs out of gas 16th April 2020 Like leaders across the region, President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is preoccupied with the fight to contain Covid-19, of which there have, so far, been seven confirmed cases and one ...
Vol 61 No 6 | MAURITANIA All is forgiven 19th March 2020 Nouakchott is abuzz with reports that ex-President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, deposed in a 2005 coup but now in poor health in exile in Qatar, may be on his way home. It could i...
Vol 60 No 23 | MAURITANIA Démarches et détente 21st November 2019 Détente is in the air as President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has surprised many by opening up to the opposition. The head of the state-run Télévision de la Mauritanie (TVM) invited ...
Vol 60 No 13 | MAURITANIA Ghazouani’s modest mandate 28th June 2019 Ex-President Abdel Aziz has smoothly slipped his placeman into his old job while a reinvigorated opposition failed and the world turned away Opposition leaders were left with much to ponder after the 22 June presidential election handed Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani outright victory on the first ballot with 52% of th...
Vol 60 No 12 | MAURITANIA Unchanging of the guard 14th June 2019 Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani has reason to be confident as he approaches presidential elections on 22 June. An ally of retiring President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the Defence M...
Vol 60 No 3 | MAURITANIA President says au revoir 8th February 2019 Abdel Aziz looks ready to stand down, but he is keeping a tight rein on power and may yet decide to return The announcement that Defence Minister Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani is to be the ruling Union pour la République (UPR) candidate in this year's presidential elections ha...
Vol 59 No 17 | MAURITANIA Putting it to the vote again 31st August 2018 All the main opposition groups are set to participate in the legislative, municipal and regional polls set for 1 and 15 September, ending what for many was a lengthy boycott of wha...
Vol 58 No 17 | MAURITANIA Abdel Aziz way 25th August 2017 President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has secured a 'Yes' vote in a referendum on abolishing the upper chamber of the country's parliament and changing the national flag. It also had t...
