Mauritania, Burkina row over suspected coup plot
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Mauritania blasted fellow West African country Burkina Faso as &quot;evil&quot; on Friday for allegedly plotting to destabilise the potentially oil-rich Islamic republic.
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Nearly 30 people are being held in Georgia on suspicion of plotting a coup against the government, officials say.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret  Thatcher is "distressed" about her son's arrest in South Africa  on suspicion of involvement in a coup plot in oil-rich  Equatorial Guinea, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Voters in the desert nation of Mauritania went to the polls Sunday with hopes that whoever wins the first presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the country back into totalitarian rule.
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Police in Guinea-Bissau on Saturday questioned five suspected members of al Qaeda over the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania and said they feared the presence of an al Qaeda network in the country.
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Ministers are asked how they knew about an alleged African coup plot weeks before mercenaries were arrested for planning it.
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The rebels are seeking to force the countryâs president, Idriss DÃ©by, to share power or step down.
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Mauritanian police say they have arrested a former army officer accused of organizing at least two failed coup attempts against President Maaouya Ould Taya in the past 16 months.
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Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the house of Mauritania&#39;s national security chief early Sunday, police in the coup-prone West African country said.
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Armed forces in Ivory Coast say they have foiled a coup plot, including a plan to assassinate President Gbagbo.
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Paris -- A high-stakes scheme to free two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq threatens to embroil President Jacques Chirac in a political scandal over whether his government assisted private intermediaries in negotiating with terrorists for the hostages
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Mark Thatcher could be questioned by prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea over his involvement in an alleged coup.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE  - U.S. and Haitian anti-drug agents tried on Monday to arrest on drug charges a leader of the 2004 rebellion that ousted then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, police officials said.
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War-divided Ivory Coast's armed forces said on Tuesday they had evidence a group of soldiers and civilians were plotting to assassinate the West African state's president and several top military officials.
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Rumors that Sudanese opposition leader Hasan Turabi helped plot a coup attempt against the Khartoum administration shook a country already buckling under the weight of the Darfur crisis.
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An accused Equatorial Guinea coup ringleader who is facing a possible death penalty sought today to clear his imprisoned co-defendants in the alleged plot to overthrow the oil-flush African regime.