Dear President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, We, the undersigned international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), ask you to ensure that blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, also known by the name of ...

Over the years, this private man had multiple public personas. At first he was known as the austere military man who seized power in a 2008 coup, but the general soon traded his combat fatigues for a ...

A Mauritanian court handed down a five-year prison sentence to the country's former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz after finding him guilty of money laundering and self-enrichment, his attorneys ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who was injured in a "friendly fire" shooting Saturday, is recovering rapidly at a French military hospital in Paris, according ...

NOUAKCHOTT, MauritaniaNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mauritania’s authorities placed former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz under house arrest Tuesday as they investigate allegations of corruption, ...

NOUAKCHOTT, MauritaniaNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mauritania’s former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went on trial Wednesday accused of alleged corruption and money laundering during his time in ...

Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and “illicit enrichment”. Abdel Aziz led the West African country for a decade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz attends the closing session ofÊSudan's National Dialogue at the Friendship Hall in ...

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who ousted Mauritania's first democratically elected leader in a coup last year, has won the desert nation's presidential election in the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ruling party presidential candidate and former Defense Minister Mohamed Ould El Ghazouani casts his ballot in Nouakchott, ...

We, the undersigned nongovernmental organizations, urge you to ensure the immediate release of Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, who is still in detention more than one and-a-half years since an appeals ...