Mauritania's security forces announced Monday that the military arrested seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda's North African wing in the desert near the border with both Mali and Algeria last week.
In this edition: the freed Lockerbie bomber Al-Megrahi arrives to a hero's welcome in Tripoli; a suicide bombing hits the French embassy in Mauritania; Algerians are concerned that Ramadan has cut this year's tourist season short.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility for the August 8 suicide bombing near the French embassy in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott in which three people were injured, including two French gendarmes.
In this edition: Fears and new tide of Mauritanian terror; female officers graduate from Algerian academy; and, how some Berber communities in Morroco are hoping to cash in on cactus products.
Mauritania's president and former coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has announced he will retain Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf to head a new 27-strong government, which includes the country's first woman foreign minister.
The recent suicide bombing near the French embassy in Mauritania's capital has once again highlighted terrorist activity in the country, something that newly elected president Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz has promised to fight against.
A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the French embassy in Mauritania's capital, wounding two members of staff. Mauritanian police say the suicide bomber was a wanted "member of the jihadist movement".
A suicide bomber was killed and two guards were slightly wounded on Saturday in an attack outside the French embassy in Mauritania’s capital, a French embassy source has reported.
In this edition: the verdict in one of Morocco's biggest terrorism trials in recent years creates controversy; taps in Mauritania's capital are at imminent risk of running dry; and why Algerians have decided to no longer work on Saturdays.
In this edition: In Mauritania, the opposition rejects presidential poll results; an in-depth look at Moroccan women and their involvement in politics; the Maghreb in a state of emergency as A(H1N1) virus emerges in several countries.
