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Report: Al-Qaeda Claims French Hostage Killed
(NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania) — A Mauritanian-based website said that al-Qaeda's North African branch has executed a French hostage in retaliation for France's...
Can Mauritania’s President Survive Both Coup-Plotters and al-Qaeda?
For presidents one rule of thumb for political survival is not to leave your country for too long especially if you are thinking of waging a regional war against...
How the Injury to an African Dictator May Hobble France
A key Western ally in the fight against al-Qaeda in North Africa was shot on the weekend and airlifted to a Paris hospital, in what could spell trouble in an...
Is Al-Qaeda Beefing Up Its Presence in Mali?
Ali Cissé, 30, a shopkeeper, couldn't contain his curiosity when a new wave of gunmen rolled into town. Outside the governor's compound in downtown Gao -- a...
Lessons Unlearned: Why Another Gigantic Famine Looms in Africa
In Gaet Teidouma, a small village in a plain of sand and rocks more than 800 km (500 miles) east of Mauritania's capital Nouakchott, Kertouma Mint Sedatty tries...
North Africa's Sahel: The Next Terrorism Hot Spot?
With a gigantic cache of of advanced anti-aircraft rockets missing from a raided storage space in Tripoli this week, concerns rose that the Gaddafi regime's...
Terror Threat in N. Africa: Kidnapping Foreigners
In the three years since allying itself with Osama bin Laden, North Africa's al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) militant group has worked hard to align its...
The Perilous Tide
Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 Just last autumn, desperate African migrants scaled barbed wire fences on Morocco's northern coast—a mere 14 km from this Spanish...
Mauritania: Daddah Knows Best
When Mauritania won its independence in 1960, sovereignty and sand were about all it had. Sprawled across the lower Sahara on Africa's Atlantic hump, the arid...
MAURITANIA: Exit Daddah
A costly war provokes a coup Citizens of the quiet, sand-swept Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (pop. 103,500) were trudging to their jobs early one morning...
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Mali refugees face' appalling' camp
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Mauritania Says Holding Canadian Linked to Suspected Militants
The North African nation of Mauritania says it has detained a Canadian citizen linked to two other Canadians who died while fighting with militants during an attack on a natural...
Report of Hostage's Beheading
Al Qaeda's North African arm said Tuesday that it had beheaded a French hostage in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali, Mauritania's ANI news agency reported. ...
Mauritania president welcomed home by crowds
President Aziz returned after five weeks in France for medical treatment following a friendly-fire shooting accident. ...
