Vol 51 No 19 |
- SAHEL
- SECURITY
In Nouakchott relations between Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and his opponents remain edgy although July brought hints of a slight thaw...
Mauritania President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz in Mauritania is also a military man but of a different stripe...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...
Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...
Vol 49 No 17 |
- MAURITANIA
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 Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (AC Vol 48 No 10)...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WESTERN SAHARA
Under pressure Polisario Secretary General Mohamed Abdelaziz has recently defended the Sahrawi people’s right to resort to armed conflict to achieve a fully independent Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)...
Vol 48 No 10 |
- MAURITANIA
Through his wife Abdallahi has close links with Colonel Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz the head of the Presidential Guard and an architect of the 2005 coup...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Saharan gambit Polisario Front leader and Saharan Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) President Mohamed Abdelaziz who has led the Saharawi independence movement for 30 years is looking for progress on a referendum in the former Spanish Sahara...
In December Algiers cut the knot persuading Sahrawi President Mohamed Abdelaziz not to insist on turning up...
Mohamed Abdelaziz Polisario's leader sees a UN-sponsored referendum as his best chance of becoming president of a real country and needs to raise the pressure to stop the voting plans losing momentum...