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Mauritania

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz

Date of Birth: 20 December 1956
Place of Birth: Akjoujt, Mauritania


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Aziz’s power game

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is navigating a delicate course across the region’s geopolitical minefield...


Handling the opposition

Despite official promises of elections President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s government has shown no serious signs of holding any...


    Vol 53 No 17 |
  • MALI

Intervention plan revealed

Although Nouakchott has in the past staged hot-pursuit raids on AQIM in northern Mali President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz recently said his forces would not join any Ecowas intervention...


Zuma to the shores of Tripoli

President Zuma spent several hours with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in Tripoli in the company of fellow members of the AU delegation – and fellow past recipients of the Libyan leader’s largesse – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville President Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping of Gabon...


Storms in the sand

In Nouakchott relations between Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and his opponents remain edgy although July brought hints of a slight thaw...


Whiskey doubles all round

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...


Junta asks for time

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz Commander of the Bataillon de la Sécurité Présidentielle (Basep) along with the Gendarmerie Nationale head Gen...


Quiet coup

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)...


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