| Arabeyes: Mauritanian President Ousted in Military Coup d'état |
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| Written by globalvoicesonline.org | |
| Wednesday, 06 August 2008 | |
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Army commanders ousted Mauritania's first freely elected president in two decades, President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, in a military coup d'état Wednesday after political feuding over the firing of the country's four top generals. Military commanders announced the formation of a new state council and its leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (one of the four fired generals), on state radio and television stations. General Abdel Aziz was also involved in a 2005 coup d'état in Mauritania. Al
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