Mauritania News

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.

Relatives and friends of a slain humanitarian aid worker remembered his commitment to bettering lives in West Africa where he moved from Tennessee and his unabashed Christian beliefs that an al-Qaida group said was the reason he was gunned down.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 02:35 Mecca time, 23:35 GMT Ousted Mauritania president resigns Mauritania's first freely elected president has formally resigned from office, paving the way for new elections more than 10 months after he was overthrown in a military coup.

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The bird, nicknamed Heidenskip, appears to have flown from Friesland via Spain and over the Sahara in one go.

NOUAKCHOTT: Rivals in Mauritania have agreed on a way to overcome all the obstacles to a political settlement and achieve a new transitional government, a mediator, Habib Kabachi, said yesterday.

DUBAI: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for this week's murder of an American teacher in the Mauritanian capital, US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence said yesterday.

As perceptions of beauty change and obesity-related diseases rise, more women in Mauritania are fighting back against force-feeding, according to the government.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania a ' Al-Jazeera TV says Al-Qaidaa TMs North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American aid worker shot dead this week in Mauritaniaa TMs capital.

Al-Jazeera TV says Al-Qaida claims responsibility for killing American in Mauritania.

An aid worker from Cleveland, Tenn., working in the capital of the African nation of Mauritania was shot and killed today during an attempted kidnapping, according to authorities there.

Nouakchott - A group of youths shot dead an American man on Tuesday in the centre of the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, a police source said.

Gunmen 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.

Mauritania, a few kilometres after Nouakchott, on the "hope road" that links the capital to Nema, 1100 km at the east.

The empty health clinic in a remote part of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a legacy of what sometimes goes wrong when the military takes the lead on civil affairs projects, despite good intentions.

History will judge who lost Mauritania, writes Gamal Nkrumah It has been some time now since the complacent official narrative about the Mauritanian military's interference in politics has passed muster.

Bamako . Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Credit: French American Cultural Exchange.

NOUAKCHOTT: The former head of a military junta who ruled Mauritania from 2005 until 2007 announced Saturday his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election.

Congolese Head of State Denis Sassou-Nguesso here on Saturday announced his candidature for the presidential election of 12 July 200 9 , PANA reported.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed yesterday's signing of an agreement between parties in Mauritania, which was rocked by a coup d'tat last summer, calling it a "solid basis" for the West African nation's return to constitutional order and the consolidation of democracy.