President held in Mauritania coup

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NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) - Troops overthrew Mauritania's president in a military coup on Wednesday after he tried to sack senior army officers accused of being behind a political crisis destabilising the country.

President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was arrested as troops rolled through the capital ( Read more... )

Publisher of Arabic-Language Weekly Charged With 'Libel And Insult'

Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)

PRESS RELEASE

17 June 2008

Posted to the web 18 June 2008

Mohamed Nema Oumar, the publisher of the privately-owned, Arabic-language weekly "Al-Houriya", was released on the evening of 13 June 2008 after being held for 30 hours in a police station ( Read more... )