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Mauritania's former president is sentenced to 15 years in prison after appealing a 5-year verdict
An appeals court in Mauritania handed down a 15-year prison sentence and a $3 million fine to former President Mohamed Ould ...
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Stability holds in Mauritania as jihadists ravage Sahel
One evening in December 2011, five armed men arrived in a vehicle, fired at the Mauritanian gendarmerie post at Adel Begrou, ...
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Mauritania ex-leader Aziz jailed on appeal for 15 years
An appeals court sentenced Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for abuse ...
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‘Xenophobic’: Neighbours outraged over Mauritania’s mass migrant pushback
Governments of Senegal and Mali are angry at how their nationals are being treated in the northwest African nation.
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Mauritania once again deports a large number of migrants
Sub-Saharan migrants are being arrested and deported from Mauritania, which members of civil society allege stems from an ...
Former Mauritanian president jailed for 15 years following appeal
Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption ...
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On patrol for jihadists with Mauritania's camel cavalry
A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on "ships of the desert" may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelback ...
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Mauritania's former president is sentenced to 15 years in prison after appealing a 5-year verdict
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — An appeals court in Mauritania handed down a 15-year prison sentence and a $3 million fine to former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday after he appealed a ...