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Mauritania remains on a knife-edge after last week's controversial election.
Mauritanian police raided the headquarters of two opposition parties, closing one of them, amid high tension followed a disputed outcome to presidential elections.
An Egyptian sports anchor has been mocked on social media for asking a football fan from West African state Mauritania where he learnt to speak Arabic.
Government candidate and frontrunner Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has declared himself the winner of the first round of Mauritania's presidential election, after 80 percent of the votes had been counted.
Some 1.5 million people will head to the polls on Saturday, with many hopeful that the West African nation will see its first democratic transition of power since independence.
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister expressed support for the UN envoy for Yemen, a UN spokesperson said, amid a falling-out between the envoy and the Saudi-backed president of Yemen.
A former leading member of Mauritania's ruling political party has called on the country's president to restore relations with Qatar and work to resolve the ongoing Gulf dispute.
Israeli technology firm NSO Group has come under criticism again for providing the code used to hack phones through one simple WhatsApp call.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of finding a political solution to Libya’s ongoing conflict.
Three Salafis have been sentenced to death penalty for murdering an American priest in 2009.
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