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 ...
Report: Ansar Dine spokesman seeks surrender
A spokesman for an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender and be extradited to face trial in his home country of Mauritania, ...

Al-Qaida takes responsibility for Timbuktu attack
Al-Qaida's local chapter took responsibility for an attack on Timbuktu this weekend, as French and Malian forces Monday continued to hunt down the ...
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 ...

Blatter: Most Europol cases were already handled
Most allegations of match-fixing raised by Europol this week had already been dealt with, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said Thursday. "Most of the ...

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 ...
Mauritanian president returns to France
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz left Nouachott Friday, saying he was going back to France for "planned medical tests," less than a week ...
Frenchman kidnapped in Mali asks gov't for help
A French national who was kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked extremist group in Mali appeared on a video published this weekend and made available on ...

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 ...
French citizen kidnapped in southwest Mali
A French citizen has been kidnapped in southwest Mali, far from the northern zone controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants that African countries are ...