Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 11/3/2003
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of November 3, 2003
- Mauritania's authorities release Weld Hedalah
A source in Mauritania's police said that the candidate for the Presidential elections, former President Muhammad Khona Wild Hedalah who was detained on Thursday afternoon was released the same day in the evening but the fate of six persons who were close to him and detained with him, is still unknown. Mauritania, Politics, 11/8/2003 - Accusation of a coup plan as Mauritania's election nears
The director of the elections campaign for the President of Mauritania said that he found a document that proves that Muhammad Khouna Weld Hedallah, the candidate of the opposition to the Presidential elections was planning to take over government by force if he does not win the elections, and this will be in support of national and Islamist groups. Mauritania, Politics, 11/6/2003