Mauritania's presidential spokesman said Tuesday renegade army officers have staged a coup, detaining the desert nation's president after he fired the country's top four military officials.
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.
Aug 6 - Presidential guardsmen have seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup after he sacked several top army officers.
