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Mauritania's foreign minister says recent attacks claimed by al-Qaida's North African branch were committed by foreign fighters.
Al-Qaida's North African branch claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing outside the French Embassy in Mauritania's capital.
The U.S. Peace Corps says it has pulled more than 100 American volunteers out of Mauritania for security reasons.
A suicide bomber killed himself outside the French Embassy on Saturday night, wounding two embassy guards and a woman in the street, police and witnesses said.
A judge says that three men have been charged with murder in the slaying of an American teacher in Mauritania.
A police official says officers have arrested a third suspected al-Qaida member for the June murder of American teacher.
The man who led last year's coup in Mauritania has officially won the presidency in weekend elections, the Constitutional Court said late Thursday — just hours after the head of the election commission resigned over doubts about the ballot.
Mauritania's state security chief says two men detained in a late-night shootout in the capital are part of an al-Qaida-linked terror cell that killed an American citizen last month.
At the end of a long road that disappears in a scrub-brush desert where camels trek across orange ribbons of sand, the first freely elected president in Mauritania's history believes he is watching a democratic revolution unfold.
More than 10 months after being overthrown in a military coup, Mauritania's first freely elected president has given up his claim to power and officially resigned.
Al-Qaida's North African branch has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American aid worker shot dead this week in Mauritania's capital, Al-Jazeera TV reported Thursday.
The family of an American man who was slain by extremists linked to al-Qaida while doing humanitarian work in Mauritania said Monday it has forgiven his killers.
Mauritania's rival political factions have agreed to postpone Saturday's scheduled presidential election until July 18, officials said Tuesday.
The leader of a coup that ousted Mauritania's elected government gave up power Wednesday, freeing him to seek the presidency in balloting aimed at returning civilian rule.
Mauritania's military ruler says he'll stand in presidential elections meant to return the country to civilian administration.
Israel closed its embassy in this West African nation Friday after the Mauritanian government suspended ties over Israel's three-week military offensive in Gaza that ended in January.
Mauritania's foreign minister says his nation is suspending diplomatic ties with Israel over the fighting in Gaza.
The deposed president of Mauritania was set free Sunday after 4 1/2 months under house arrest and immediately began working to retake power from the junta that overthrew him, a spokesman said.
The leaders of Mauritania's recent coup have agreed to free the country's president, who has been under house arrest since the military takeover four months ago, international officials said Sunday.
The torture of prisoners including al-Qaida suspects has increased under the military junta that rules Mauritania, where security forces routinely abuse detainees with electric shocks, burnings, beatings and sexual violence, an international rights group said Wednesday.
The military junta that ousted Mauritania's president released him Thursday in response to international pressure, police and his family said.
Police fired tear gas and used batons to beat back union activists demanding the reinstatement of Mauritania's deposed president.
Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 12 Mauritanian soldiers Monday, two senior officials said. The attack, which came after the terror group promised to avenge the country's recent coup, was the worst suffered by the military in three years.
Mauritanian legislators selected eight colleagues Tuesday to serve as a High Court that will try the recently ousted president, standing by the new ruling military junta even as the U.S. strengthened its condemnation of last month's coup.
More than two-thirds of Mauritanian lawmakers endorsed last week's army-led coup, urging world governments Wednesday to recognize the ruling junta as the legitimate government.
BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Al-Qaeda-link' Cern worker heldFrance has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said. The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.
BBC NEWS | Africa | US Peace Corps quits MauritaniaThe Peace Corps is reporting that most of it's aid workers are leaving Mauritania and going to Senegal, to escape the violence that has been accumulating.
U.S. aid worker shot dead in Mauritanian capitalA U.S. aid worker was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott.
U.S. professor dies in botched Africa kidnap bidGunmen shot and killed an American man Tuesday as he left his car in the capital of the West African nation of Mauritania, police and witnesses said.
Freedom from Slavery in MauritaniaMauritania - a desert country on Africa's north west coast - has a history of slavery going back 800 years.
March 6 -- The government of Mauritania today ordered the staff of the Israeli embassy to leave the country within 48 hours. The order came from the government in response to the Zionist-Israeli siege on Gaza that killed over 1,330 Palestinians and wounded another 5,450.
Girls force-fed for marriage as old traditions take grip in west AfricaCampaigners in Mauritania accuse the new military regime of turning a blind eye to a cult of obesity among young girls being groomed for suitors
Allah loves gays, one organization believesAt least seven nations still punish gays with death, but one organization is trying to remove the stigma of being gay among Muslims of the world.
MSF's Top Ten Humanitarian Crises of 2008The report underscores major difficulties in bringing assistance to people affected by conflict.
U.S. Helps African States Fend Off IslamistsThousands of miles from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, another side of America's fight against terrorism is unfolding in this remote corner of West Africa.
IRIN Africa | West Africa | Mauritania | MAURITANIA: Donors on standby while EU considers next step | Economy Food Security Governance Aid Policy | News ItemOne month after setting a deadline for Mauritania's coup leaders to restore constitutional order or face sanctions, the European Union said the junta's efforts have been "insufficient" and that the EU will examine "appropriate measures," according to a 20 November state …
Repression of Pro-Democracy Demonstrations Raises Tension in MauritaniaFor the second time in three days, police in Mauritania have used clubs and tear gas to disperse demonstrators calling for the re-instatement of the country's president, who was deposed in a military coup d'etat.
Ousted Mauritania PM re-arrestedMauritania's former prime minister has been re-arrested, a few days after being freed by the new military rulers.
Bombings Add to Fears Algeria is al-Qaida Hotbed | guardian.co.ukFor the west, the fear is that the terrorists see Europe as their ultimate target – Moroccan nationals were involved in the 2004 Madrid bombings – although their immediate fight is with the pro-western governments of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
Did Mauritania really need a coup? Only Riyadh knows for sure![Excerpt:] - Really now, it has come time to call a spade a spade in this region and for all intents and purposes there is very little to go on to try to free the Saudis from the havoc in governance that has plagued this region.
African Union suspend Mauritania after Military takeoverMAURITANIA has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following the recent coup in the northwest African nation. According to an Agence France Presse (AFP) report, the suspension came as an Arab League envoy, Ahmed Ben Hilli, held talks with the coup leader.
Iran: Coup in Mauritania unacceptable[Excerpt:] - Iran says resorting to force and settling disputes through militaristic approaches in the African country of Mauritania is 'unacceptable'.
Al Jazeera English - Africa - Mauritanian military stages coupOfficers seized Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the president, on Wednesday, along with the country's interior minister and Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf, Mauritania's prime minister in what appears to be a bloodless coup.
Renegade troops seize power in MauritaniaArmy officers upset with government overtures toward Islamic hard-liners staged a coup in Mauritania on Wednesday, overthrowing its first government to be freely elected in more than 20 years.
Army renegades in Mauritania 'coup'Renegade army officers staged a coup Wednesday and detained Mauritania's president and prime minister, after they fired the desert country's top four military officials, the presidential spokesman said.
One Man's Personal Mission To End Slavery in Mauritania''The ancient tradition of slavery endures in Mauritania, although it was officially abolished in the 1980s. There are roughly half a million slaves among the country's population of 3.3 million, and at least 80 percent do not have access to a formal education, Messaoud said.
MAURITANIA: Record hunger predicted in 2008Food security experts predict that Mauritania, where 70 percent of food eaten is imported, may face its highest ever levels of hunger in 2008, and aid agency representatives are concerned they do not have enough money to meet people's needs amid skyrocketing food prices and dwind …
Al-Qaida affiliate claims responsibility for Israeli Embassy attack in MauritaniaAl-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, is based in Algeria and has claimed responsibility for near-simultaneous bombings at U.N. offices in Algiers and a government building on Dec. 11 that killed at least 37 people.
Al-Qaida claims Mauritania attackAn al-Qaida affiliate purportedly claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital.
Three arrested in embassy attack | Jerusalem PostThree people were arrested in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Saturday morning a day after allegedly opening fire near the Israeli Embassy in the northwest African country. The suspects were arrested after trying to flee a police roadblock on their way to a waiting getaway …
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