Algeria hostage-taker's brother charged

Two Mauritanians including the brother of one of the hostage-takers who seized an Algerian gas field last month have been charged with trying to join al-Qaeda o fight in Mali, a judicial source says.

• Hostage drama: Algeria admits mistakes
• At least 2 Norwegians killed in Algeria
• Algeria admits needing help

Mauritanian leader returns home

Mauritania's president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has returned home to the capital Nouakchott from Paris, where he was treated after being "accidentally" shot by a soldier in October, an official says.

• Mauritania opposition protest Aziz's return
• Mauritania's president set to return
• Soldier describes shooting at Aziz

Aziz returns to Paris for treatment

Mauritania's president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is set to return to Paris for further medical examinations, less than a week after returning from France where he was treated after being shot by a soldier last month.

• Mauritanian president comes home
• Soldier describes shooting at Aziz
• President 'accidentally' shot at

Mauritania's president set to return

Mauritania's president says he will return to his country in a few days, more than a month after he was shot by his guards and was evacuated to France for medical treatment.

• Mauritania leader says recovering well
• Mauritanian president 'recovering'
• Mauritania says leader 'out of danger'

Mauritania leader says recovering well

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has assured the nation he is recovering well after being shot by a soldier earlier this month in what has been described by government as an accident.

• Soldier describes shooting at Aziz
• President 'accidentally' shot at
• Mauritania says leader 'out of danger'

Mauritania says leader 'out of danger'

President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is "out of danger" and will remain at the helm of Mauritania while he recovers in France after being shot at a soldiers' checkpoint, an official says.

• Mauritanian president 'recovering'
• President 'accidentally' shot at
• 11 Mauritanian parties want poll delay

Mali crisis: Algeria, Mauritania urge talks

Mauritania and Algeria have called for dialogue in a bid to reach a political solution to the six-month-old crisis in neighbouring Mali, after ruling out sending troops there to battle Islamist militia.

• Mali mediator wants dialogue with rebels
• US Africa command chief in Mauritania
• UN condemns Mali rights abuses

Talks 'impossible' with Mali jihadists

A French envoy has met with Mauritania's president on the crisis in northern Mali, saying that while dialogue was possible with some fighters it was not an option with "terrorist forces".

• Mauritania rules out Mali intervention
• Mali asks Mauritania help to sort crisis
• Radical Islamist group threatens France

Mauritania rules out Mali intervention

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has ruled out sending troops to Mali, where the embattled government has lost control of the north to al-Qaeda-linked militia.

• Mali asks Mauritania help to sort crisis
• Mali refugees causing regional strain
• Mali weighs unity government

Mauritania ex-rights chief jailed

Mauritania's former human rights commissioner Mohamed Lemine Ould Dadde has been handed a three-year jail term for embezzlement and ordered to pay back over €200 000, his lawyer says.

• Group warns Mauritania against violence
• Mauritania urged to fight slavery
• Mauritania takes tourists to red zone

Warrant issued against Qaeda suspects

Mauritania has issued an international warrant for the arrest of an opponent of President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for supporting terror groups in the Sahel region, a justice official says.

• Africom praises Mauritania in al-Qaeda fight
• Mauritania warns against al-Qaeda
• Al-Qaeda attacks Mauritania army base

Mauritanian forces hit AQIM leadership

Mauritanian forces have killed a top official of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb during an air raid into Malian territory.

• Al-Qaeda retreats from west Mali camps
• Al-Qaeda attacks Mauritania army base
• Africom praises Mauritania in al-Qaeda fight

Events in Libya 'tragic'

The “tragic” unrest in Libya could cause a spike in cross-border crime, arms trafficking and terrorism, the presidents of Mauritania and Gambia have said.

• Nato hopes Libya crisis will end soon
• Rebellion creeping west to Tripoli
• Report: Former SAS soldiers in Libya

Al-Qaeda building new base in Mali

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is building a new base in Mali near the Mauritanian border, with a view to attacking that country say sources.

• Al-Qaeda hostages scattered
• Mali joins Mauritania to fight Aqim
• Imam held in Mali for 'Qaeda ties'

Aziz vows to keep food prices down

Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz has ordered urgent measures to keep food prices down after neighbouring African administrations were jolted by mass protests, a report says.

Aziz pardons 4 women prisoners

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has pardoned four female prisoners to mark International Women’s Day, according to a presidential decree.

• Mauritania: Webmaster jailed
• Mauritania: 3 jailed for fraud

Mauritania: Webmaster jailed

An appeals court has upheld a jail term for Mauritanian journalist Hanevy Ould Dehah, accused of immorality on his website.

• 'Cultural imperialism' shunned

New Mauritania pres keeps PM

Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has retained career diplomat Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf as prime minister.

• Transition gvt for Mauritania
• Mauritania's Aziz sworn in
• Aziz denies election fraud

Aziz declared poll winner

The man who led a coup in Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has officially won the presidency in the country's recent elections, the Constitutional court says.

• Aziz denies election fraud
• Aziz wins elections
• Abdel Aziz to run for president

Aziz wins elections

Former junta chief Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has won Mauritania's presidential election but opposition leaders have called it an "electoral coup".

• Mauritania to hold vote in May
• Transition gvt for Mauritania
• Post-coup Mauritania election due

Post-coup Mauritania election due

A former military general who ousted Mauritania first freely elected president is vying to become its legitimate ruler in elections expected to return power to civilian rule.

• Transition gvt for Mauritania
• 10 contenders in Mauritania poll

10 contenders in Mauritania poll

Ten candidates have come forward for the upcoming presidential election in Mauritania, according to a recently released list by the constitutional council.

• Mauritania begins poll talks
• Mauritania to hold vote in May
• Transition gvt for Mauritania

Talks on Mauritanian vote

Mauritania's military junta and political parties have met to try to end a dispute that is delaying the formation of an interim government.

• Envoys in Mauritania for talks
• Mauritania's Abdallahi freed
• Mauritania begins poll talks