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The Mauritania regime has again irritated Rabat after it allowed the Polisario Front to send militaries to spy on Moroccan forces from the military buffer zone of Guerguerat located between the two counties. Polisario elements were allowed to sneak into La Güera small town through the Mauritania side, Moroccan daily Al Massae reported. The act […]
The 13 anti-slavery activists from the slavery abolitionist movement (known by its acronym IRA) have been seen their prison sentences reduced after an appeal court revisited their cases, reports say. Zouerate court of appeal Friday November 17 overturned the 20 years in prison pronounced against the activists on Wednesday November 16. The court in a […]
Tension is growing between the Mauritanian Senate and the ruling Union pour la Republique party (UPR) over regime’s plans to suppress the chamber without consulting its members as enshrined in the constitution. The Mauritanian regime last month organized a national dialogue to lead to a referendum over the replacement of the senate by regional councils […]
U.N. human rights officials condemned the systematic oppression endured by anti-slavery activists in Mauritania who have been handed a 15-year jail sentence. “The (Mauritanian) government is hostile to civil society groups that criticize its policies, especially to groups like IRA, whose members are drawn from the Haratin minority and advocate for an end to slavery,” […]
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank, published on its website an article that exposes the frail stability in Algeria and Mauritania, putting the two North African states in a list of “ten countries whose stability cannot be taken for granted.” The article, signed by Michael Rubin, points out to the semi-military […]
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has asked his Burkina Faso counterpart Marc-Christian Kaboré for explanations for letting Mauritanian anti-slavery activist Birame ould Dah ould Abeïd speak on the West African country’s public channel, reports say. Tension has risen between the two presidents after Birame ould Dah ould Abeïd, leader of the anti-slavery movement IRA […]
The Royal Armed Forces conducted an operation that foiled an Algerian plan to establish a polisario separatist military presence in the southernmost tip of the Sahara, Guergarat, capturing 6 Algerian military officers and several polisario fighters. The news is relayed by Assabah daily which says that the Moroccan Armed Forces (known by the French acronym […]
Moderate opposition parties in Mauritania, which are taking part in the political dialogue organized by the regime, have threatened to walk out of the process after government spokesperson tried to impose proposals allowing constitutional change and paving the way for a third term in office for incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Around 700 people […]
Mauritania’s main opposition parties have boycotted President Ould Abdel Aziz’s call for national inclusive dialogue, which they believe is a covert agenda to maintain the Mauritania President in power after he reaches constitutional term limit. The 10-day dialogue, opened on Thursday, has lost, according to main opposition figures, its credibility as the political parties opposed […]
Mauritania’s main stream private newspapers have chosen to go off on Wednesday in a move to denounce unbearable work conditions coupled with authorities’ tight grip on private media, reports say. The Wednesday action is undertaken “to protest against the situation of deep crisis that Mauritanian private newspapers are stranded in,” said Sy Mamadou, Chief Editor […]