Egypt midfielder Ahmed Al-Muhammadi is eyeing a move to Blackburn in the January transfer window.

Egypt midfielder Ahmed Al-Muhammadi is set to undergo a trial with Barclays Premier League club Blackburn.

The African Union has frozen the membership of Mauritania until democracy returns to the troubled country.

The government of Mauritania was overthrown by an Army coup today.

At least one gunman opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania today, setting off a battle with guards that wounded one person.

Mauritania has passed a law that promises prison for people who keep slaves – a monumental step in the African country’s push to route out the long-standing practice.

Former government minister Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has won Mauritania’s landmark presidential election with 53% of the vote, officials said today.

A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania today, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the north-west African country’s coast, government officials said.

The World Bank’s directors approved a £37bn (€53.4bn) debt relief package for poor countries, many of them in Africa, after resolving yesterday how the international lending institution will find money for future loans.

Tullow Oil plummeted 23c down to €3.78, nearly 6%, following their announcement that drilling on the Faucon-1 exploration well off the coast Mauritania has been completed.

ISEQ-listed exploration company Tullow Oil and Eni have exercised rights of pre-emption in relation to the sale to Petrofac of Centrica’s 23.15% interest in the Hewett Field Unit area.

Army troops in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott took control of the national radio and television station and deployed around other strategic buildings while the desert nation’s president was in Saudi Arabia today, witnesses said.

Aid agency World Vision Ireland has called for support for its aid efforts in Mauritania, where more than one million people are facing hunger.

Mauritania arrested several army officers today after uncovering an alleged assassination plot against President Maaoya Sid’Ahmed Ould Taya, military sources said.

Mauritania’s pro-West leader battled an apparent coup attempt today, as gun and tank cannon fire erupted near the presidential palace.

Fighting erupted in the capital of the Arab-dominated west African nation of Mauritania today in an apparent coup attempt against the country’s pro-West leader, broadcast reports said.

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