Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 6/6/2005
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of June 6, 2005
- Mauritania's Knights of Change deny accusations
The " Knights of Change " movement in Mauritania, which carried out the failed coupe in June 2003 against President Weld al-Taye, denied in a statement connection to the killing incident of 15 Mauritanian soldiers and offered condolences to the Mauritanian people and army. Mauritania, Politics, 6/9/2005 - Nouakchott demonstrates against the north attacks
Thousands of Mauritanian people took the streets on Wednesday in a people's march organized by the ruling social democratic party in protest of the attack which targeted a military position to the north east of the country in which 15 soldiers were killed and other 17 were injured. Mauritania, Politics, 6/9/2005 - King Mohammed sends message to Mauritanian President
Mauritanian President, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya received in Nouakchott Wednesday Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mohamed Benaissa who conveyed to the Mauritanian President a message from King Mohammed VI. Mauritania-Morocco, Politics, 6/9/2005 - Al-Salafeyah movement in Algeria claims attack on military position in Mauritania
The Salafeyah Group For Call And Fighting in Algeria claimed responsibility for the attack at a military position for the Mauritanian army to the north east of the country which resulted in killing 15 soldiers Algeria-Mauritania, Politics, 6/7/2005 - 18 soldiers killed in attack against a military base in north Mauritania
The Mauritanian authorities are chasing at the meantime other four members of this group. Nouakchott accuses the executors of these attempts of receiving support from Islamists Mauritania, Politics, 6/6/2005