Topic: Mauritania

The Mauritanian referee Lenghaifry Ali is officiating this Thursday Angola-Sudan match of group B's second round of Africa Cup of Nations...
Boko Haram militants from Nigeria are bolstering links with Al-Qaeda and other hardline groups in West Africa, according to a UN report released ...
2012. We live in a world in which the choice of a label determines whether tens of millions of people have the right to survive or to die. The...
A court in Algeria has sentenced a fugitve leader of Al-Qaeda's north African wing and three of his followers to death for attacks against the...

Famine stalks the Sahel

Light rains, poor harvests and overpriced food will combine to create a severe famine for five Sahel countries if urgent, large-scale measures are not taken, experts warn."The crisis is already here. All you can do is try to lessen its impact ...
Algeria and Mauritania's leaders Tuesday vowed to beef up security in the Sahel region, where Islamist militants are holding a dozen Western hostages.Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz made the commitment in a joint statement ...
Kinross Gold (KGC) has been busy on the exploration and development front in the first half of 2012, which will yield significant benefits going...
Posted on 05/20/11 at 9:18am by Benzinga Staff . Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE: KGC ) said today that a brief work stoppage at its Tasiast gold...
Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate is exploiting the conflict in Libya to acquire weapons, an Algerian official told Reuters last week. Al-Qaeda of...
Conflict in the Ivory Coast has put the nation on the cusp of a civil war. Below, what it's all about, and the actions being taken to remedy the...