Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA No win, no gain 1st December 2006 The military regime gets the election result it wanted, with no party strong enough to govern There was no winner in the parliamentary elections on 19 November, the first since Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall's coup of 3 August 2005 (AC Vol 45 No 17). Since none of the partie...
Vol 47 No 24 | MAURITANIA Investigation down under 1st December 2006 Woodside Petroleum is Mauritania's largest foreign investor by far. It has sunk around US$1 billion into its Chinguetti offshore project, pumping the only oil between the North Sea...
Vol 46 No 14 | MAURITANIA Torturers beware 8th July 2005 Politicians and officials accused of human rights crimes may think twice about visiting France, after last week's conviction of Mauritanian Captain Ely Ould Dah for offences commit...
Vol 45 No 17 | MAURITANIA Taya's travails 27th August 2004 President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya has turned the latest alleged coup plot, on 10 August, to his advantage, detaining Islamist leader Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour and a dozen sen...
Vol 44 No 20 | MAURITANIA Warriors and marabouts 10th October 2003 Nouakchott cracks down on Islamists and Arab nationalists ahead of November's elections President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya has cracked down on his critics, particularly targeting Arab nationalists and Islamists as he seeks to improve ties with his new friends in I...
Vol 43 No 18 | MAURITANIA Saddam to Sharon 13th September 2002 Arriving from Ethiopia as Africa Confidential went to press, the new Israeli Ambassador to Mauritania Ariel Kerem was summoned to present his credentials the day after landing in N...
Vol 42 No 3 | MAURITANIA Go north, Ould Taya! 9th February 2001 Domestic concerns take second place as a confident President redraws diplomatic policy Colonel Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's increasingly assertive foreign policy, based on closer ties to the West - notably the United States and its key ally Israel - and to Maghreb ...