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Army Seizes Power in Mauritania

African nation's first democratically elected president captive

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 6, 2008 9:38 AM CDT

(Newser) – Soldiers in the West African nation of Mauritania mounted a coup d'etat today, arresting the president and prime minister and shutting down state radio and television, the Guardian reports. Troops entered the capital and apprehended Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country’s first democratically elected...   Read full story »

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