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Wednesday, 6 August, 2008

Coup d’Etat in Mauritania, President has been dismissed

This morning Mauritania’s army has occupied Presidential Palace in capital Nouakchott dismissing the President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi elected democratically in 2007. All tv, radio and organs of informations have been stopped, army has also taken the control of points of major importance such as (airport, major streets). The official reason of all of this is the bad economic crisis that tights the country. A big side of the country has formed by desert.

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The news:
http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/notizie/rubriche/daassociare/visualizza_new.html_733684404.html]http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/notizie/rubriche/daassociare/visualizza_new.html_733684404.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7544834.stm