Nouakchott

Nouakchott

• 10-year sentence sought for Canadian in Mauritania

  Prosecutors in Mauritania are seeking to lengthen to 10 years the sentence of a Canadian man already imprisoned on alleged links to terror groups, a ... 

• Military plane crashes in Mauritania

  A Mauritanian official says that a military plane which was on a training mission crashed near the desert town of Aoujeft, located roughly 500 ... 

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  Algeria militants played shrewd media game

  As wildly contradictory accounts trickled out about a terror attack at an Algerian gas plant, one source of information proved to be the most ... 

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  Mauritanian president returns from France

  Thousands of Mauritanians lined the road from the airport Saturday to welcome back President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who went to France for five ...