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...Politicians and activists fear by replicating the agreement with Tunisia, the EU will bolster the regime of Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, who heads an autocratic government that still tolerates...
...What to watch today Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Ursula von der Leyen visit Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould El-Ghazouani in Nouakchott....
...“The relationship is broken right now,” said Mahmoud Ould Mohamed, Mali’s interim minister of trade and commerce....
...“You need a local approach but through militias it brought more harm than solutions,” said Mohamed Ould Mahmoud, spokesman for CMA, an alliance of rebel groups whose members joined extremists to capture...
...“I think we will soon be in a situation where we are not implementing any more anything and the terrorists will gain again the space . . . and the government will withdraw,” said Mohamed Ould Mahmoud, spokesman...
...“If you accept to negotiate with them from a weak position, it means you accept their position [as valid],” said Mohamed Ould Mahmoud, spokesman for the CMA, one of the rebel groups that signed a controversial...
...Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed (Mauritania): The blogger remains in jail after being arrested in 2014 for an article he wrote criticising the Mauritanian caste system....
...On Wednesday he spurned an effort by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, president of Mauritania, to broker an asylum deal....
...Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Mauritania’s president, flew to Banjul, Gambia’s capital, in the late afternoon with what was thought to be an offer of asylum for Mr Jammeh and his entourage....
...Now the president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, is trying to change that by transforming the $5bn economy and capitalising on largely untapped assets, such as its offshore oil and gasfields....
...He adds that given the government’s history in commodities it “understands the commodity cycle” and also that the focus on security by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz means that “we feel safe”....
...“The biggest handicap for us is human skills,” says Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Oudaa. “The government is trying to fix this, but until recently there were no engineering schools.”...
...Relations with the west largely soured after the 2008 coup, which toppled the democratically elected government of Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi....
...She played the nine-string harp, the ardine, which is restricted to women; at her side was her husband, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, playing an electric guitar restrung to Moorish scales....
...For a president who has carried out two coups in his fragile, poor country, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has made quite a personal turn round....
...Plans to privatise Snim were abandoned in 2008 after President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, praised for his “patriotic historical position”, put his foot down....
...“We dissolved Mustaqbal,” says the defence minister, Ahmedou Ould Idey Ould Mohamed Radhi. “We have confiscated the property – we think their money came from Saudi, the Emirates, the Gulf.”...
...But Abdellahi Ould Mohamed Oudaâ, chief executive of SNIM, hailed the deal with Glencore as an important step....
...The west African country hasn't had a coup in six years, and President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is trying to make the most of it....
...Sir, I share the concerns voiced in your report “Mauritania ‘vulnerable’ to rising Islamic extremism” (April 14) and believe President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is favouring short-term maintenance of the political...
...The project – first considered 20 years earlier but taken up in earnest by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz – has several more immediately achievable aims: to attract fisheries and logistics companies and...
...Mohamed Ould Khouna, minister of oil, energy and mines, says: “We have to intensify drilling and attract more companies....
...Sidi Mohamed Ould Sidi Hamadi, a 56-year-old Arab man with Coke bottle glasses, was keeping a low profile in a house at the edge of town....
...A statement from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad on Monday said Mohamed Moussa Ag Mohamed of Ansar Dine and Oumeini Ould Baba Akhmed of the Movement for Unity and Oneness of the Jihad,...
...He also said the case of Mauritania, where General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, overthrew an elected government in 2008 and consolidated his rule through elections last year had weakened the AU’s efforts to...
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