Mauritania thwarts 'coup plot'
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Mauritanian security forces foil a coup attempt, the third in 15 months, says the interior minister.
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Sudanese troops set up roadblocks near the presidential palace and military headquarters in Khartoum after the government claimed to have uncovered a coup plot.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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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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BEIRUT -- Prime Minister Fuad Saniora yesterday accused Hezbollah's leader of threatening a coup as the Shi'ite guerrilla group escalated its attempts to oust the government.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - Hatched by Old Etonians and other members of the British political and financial elite, an alleged scheme to seize control of this oil-rich nation was no ordinary African coup plot, according to witnesses and prosecutors.
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GENEINA, Sudan  - A senior Sudanese official  charged Sunday that a rebel group with which Khartoum is  negotiating to bring peace to the troubled Darfur region was  linked to an alleged coup plot uncovered last week.
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Mauritania on Sunday announced tightened security at tourist sites after a Christmas Eve murder of four French adventure buffs led French operators to suspend holiday packages to the African nation.
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Ivory Coast's New Forces rebel group, now part of the unity government, accused Sunday one of its former leaders of trying to stage a coup in the west African nation.
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Mauritania's presidential poll, the final stage of transition to civilian rule after a coup, is free and fair, observers say.
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Mark Thatcher was &quot;planning to leave&quot; South Africa before his arrest, authorities in the country say. Police say there is &quot;credible evidence&quot; Sir Mark, who is under house arrest, helped finance an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania, but the incident ended after the plane landed in the Canary Islands, where it was raided by security forces and a suspect was ...Comment
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Mauritania's security chief denies that an attack on his home was linked to last week's alleged coup plot.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea -- Authorities in Equatorial Guinea suspended indefinitely yesterday the trial in an alleged coup plot here, awaiting information on the alleged roles of Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, and other international financiers.
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An Air Mauritania passenger jet is hijacked after taking off from the capital, Nouakchott, officials say.
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Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29  - The arrest of Mark Thatcher in South Africa over a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is shining a spotlight on powerful members of the British elite who may have colluded to take over the oil-rich African country.