Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 8/9/2004
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of August 9, 2004
- Weld Mansour is released; 27 army officers detained in Mauritania
News reports in Nouakchott said that the authorities in Mauritanian released yesterday evening the Islamic opposition member Muhammad Jamil Weld Mansour. The police in Mauritania detained Weld Mansour on Wednesady without any accusation addressed to him. Mauritania, Politics, 8/13/2004 - Nouakchott links the coupe attempt to al-Zarqawi
The authorities in Mauritania yesterday detained the leader of an Islamic opposition over suspicion of being involved in the coupe attempt which Nouakchott said that opposition Islamists and army officers were planning for. Mauritania, Politics, 8/12/2004 - Mauritania government issues the first statement over the coupe attempt; News on releasing senior detainees, detaining others
Sources in the ruling party in Nouakchott said yesterday that the coupe attempt which the authorities said it had foiled on Monday, was targeting the assassination of President Mu'aweya Weld al- Taye upon leaving the country to France on Saturday, at a time when number of detained persons reached 30. Mauritania, Politics, 8/11/2004 - 20 officers held in Mauritanian, doubts in the story of the coupe
Sources in Mauritania stressed that more than 20 army officers in the army were detained, accused of planning for a military coupe and assassination of President Mu'aweya Weld Sidi Ahmad al-Taye. Mauritania, Politics, 8/10/2004 - Mauritania hails cooperation with Morocco to fight locusts
Mauritanian Rural Development Minister, Ahmed Ould Ahmed, labelled as "ideal" Morocco-Mauritania cooperation to fight locusts. Mauritania-Morocco, Local, 8/10/2004