A suspected member of Al-Qaeda's north African branch has been indicted over his alleged role in a bloody 2008 attack which left 11 ...
Moroccan troops have dumped a group of 34 Malian would-be migrants in the desert on the border with Mauritania, in an area known ...
Thousands of West African families work to make flooded homes livable in torrential rains The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione's house is her bed. It's propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the ...
Military leaders from four countries in Africa's Sahel belt bordering the Sahara desert have worked out a plan for jointly tackling terrorism and cross-border crime, sources in Mali said Sunday. Representatives from the armies of Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger wrapped up ...
Mauritanian foreign minister says recent al-Qaida-claimed attacks work of foreign fighters Mauritania's foreign minister says recent attacks claimed by al-Qaida's North African branch were committed by foreign fighters. Naha Mint Moknass told France-24 television Wednesday that a recent suicide bombing and a ...
North African branch of al-Qaida claims suicide bombing on French Embassy in Mauritania Al-Qaida's North African branch claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing outside the French Embassy in Mauritania's capital. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa released a message saying it was ...
DAKAR (Reuters) - U.S. humanitarian group the Peace Corps has pulled its volunteer workforce from Mauritania due to security concerns following an upturn in violence in the West African desert nation. "For security reasons, we have taken 45 volunteers and 14 staff ...
The Peace Corps, a US government programme for aid volunteers, has withdrawn its workers from Mauritania because of security fears after recent attacks. The Peace Corps, which has operated in Mauritania for more than 40 years, said in a statement that it ...
US Peace Corps pulls more than 100 American volunteers out of Mauritania for security reasons The U.S. Peace Corps says it has pulled more than 100 American volunteers out of Mauritania for security reasons. The U.S. government volunteer program announced late Sunday ...
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Tuesday retained career diplomat Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf as prime minister and appointed a new government, officials said. State media published a decree appointing the government of 27 ministers, mostly composed of supporters of Ould ...
The suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the French embassy here Saturday was a Mauritanian "recruited and trained by Salafists," Mauritania's interior minister said Monday. This type of act is "completely new to Mauritania," Mohamed Ould R'Zeizim said in an interview ...
Mauritanian authorities have blamed a young Islamist extremist for a suicide bombing near the French embassy in the capital as France Sunday condemned the attack and pledged support to fight terrorism. Three people, two of them French paramilitary gendarmes, were slightly injured ...
