Mauritania's junta has announced the formation of a new government following last month's coup.
The Mauritanian news agency AMI said the government is to be headed by Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf who was appointed prime minister by the military junta two weeks ago. Most of the ministers in the new Cabinet were backers of the August 6 coup that ousted the government of Correspondent confirms Russian tanks in Gori ...
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Global Media Forum continues ... President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. He became Mauritania's first democratically elected president in 2007. The leader of the coup General Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz accused the president of not taking action against the increase of Islamist extremism and rising food prices. Cheikh Abdallahi has been under house arrest since the takeover. The coup has been condemned by the United Nations, the European Union and the United States.
(Deutsche Welle)
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