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Mauritania's month-old military junta freed political prisoners jailed by the old regime, and thousands of people rushed to the main prison in the capital, Nouakchott, to greet the inmates as they were released.
A Mauritanian who reportedly has links to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden has been arrested on suspicion of having a role in plotting a bomb attack against the United States, security officials said Friday.
A gunman wounded an American aid worker and his 10-year-old daughter on a beach a mile north of Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, police said. Government officials ruled out any political motivation for the shootings.
Mauritania's government broke up a plot by military officers and radical Islamists to seize power in the West African nation through a bombing and assassination campaign, military and ruling party officials said.
The military overthrew Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya and said it would rule for up to two years. Hundreds of people took to the streets in celebration of the coup against Taya, who was out of the country.
The elected president of Mauritania was ousted Wednesday in a bloodless military coup that appeared to spell the end for the Arab nation's experiment in democracy. A council led by a military commander ousted President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and placed him and other government officials in the North African country under house arrest.
Four members of a French family were killed during a robbery in eastern Mauritania, police said. The four, who were on a picnic, were robbed at gunpoint and then sprayed with automatic weapons fire, said Mohammed Ould Lemine, police chief of Aleg, a town 150 miles east of Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott.
Passengers overpowered a hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
Two dozen hungry, thirsty Africans were rescued from the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, 11 days after their Europe-bound vessel foundered far from Mauritania's shore.
Thirty migrants drowned over the weekend when their boat sank as it headed for Spain's Canary Islands, port sources in the Mauritanian port of Nouadhibou said.
Mauritania's month-old military junta freed political prisoners jailed by the old regime, and thousands of people rushed to the main prison in the capital, Nouakchott, to greet the inmates as they were released.