20120311 AFP Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has freed a Mauritanian paramilitary police officer it had held hostage since an attack on a gendarmerie station almost three months ago, officials said Saturday.
20111231 AFP A top businessman and a prominent critic of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz denounced on Friday an arrest warrant issued against him for supporting terror groups.
20110922 Reuters NAIROBI (Reuters) - Mauritius arrested former Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth for corruption on Thursday in connection with the purchase of a private hospital, local media said.
20110911 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets in the capital of Mauritius on Saturday in a rare protest against corruption and living standards on the Indian Ocean island.
20110814 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - The prime minister of Mauritius accused his former ally and finance minister on Saturday of treason for quitting the ruling coalition, but said the government stay in power with a slim majority to avert a political crisis in the Indian Ocean island.
20110813 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Visitor arrivals to Mauritius rose by 1.3 percent between in July from a year earlier, buoyed by an increase in tourists from China and South Africa, the government said on Friday.
20110808 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - The parliamentary majority held by Mauritius's ruling coalition shrank after one party pulled out of government on Sunday, a day after a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam.
20110806 Reuters BAMAKO (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters have fled western Mali following a bloody military offensive to dislodge them from the area, Malian security sources said on Friday.
20110722 Reuters PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius' anti-corruption watchdog arrested the Indian Ocean island's health minister on Friday after he was accused of inflating a government tender to acquire a private hospital.
20110706 Reuters NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Fighting erupted between Mauritania's army and suspected Islamists in the east of the country on Tuesday, with witnesses reporting heavy and automatic weapons fire and the aircraft flying overhead.
20110626 xinhua NOUAKCHOTT, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The Mauritanian army clashed with the al-Qaida branch in North Africa (AQIM) in northern Mali, destroying a base and vehicles of the terrorist group, the military confirmed on Saturday.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Security forces using teargas and batons dispersed several hundred anti-government protesters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, the most serious clash in the West African state for nearly two months.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - A Mauritanian prosecutor on Monday requested the death penalty against three alleged members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, suspected in the murder of American NGO worker Christopher Leggett in June 2009.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Hundreds of people took to the streets in Mauritania on Friday calling for better living conditions and more jobs in the vast, impoverished desert nation that straddles black and Arab Africa.
20110202 Xinhua NOUAKCHOTT, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three terrorist suspects were killed in a blast detonated by the Mauritanian army on Wednesday near the capital city Nouakchott, according to the military and witnesses.
20110202 Xinhua NOUAKCHOTT, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Mauritanian army forces on Wednesday destroyed a pickup truck filled with explosives near Nouakchott, killing three passengers, local media reported
NOUAKCHOTT, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A Mauritanian man on Monday expressed displeasure with the regime by setting himself aflame near the presidential palace in the capital Nouakchott, witnesses reported.
Nouakchott — Six anti-slavery activists are in prison in Mauritania in a case rights experts say points to the challenges of ensuring a 2007 law criminalizing slavery is more than just words on paper.
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is to host a major celebration of Africa in the island nation of Mauritius. Mauritius has ranked first in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance every year since it was launched four years ago.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mauritanian aircraft attacking suspected al Qaeda insurgents in Mali at the weekend killed two civilians, a Malian defence source said on Monday, days after kidnappers crossed into Mali with seven foreigners abducted in Niger.
