Category Archives: France
Aziz left hospital, reportedly in #Mauritania’s Paris Embassy
Aziz left the Percy hospital, and is reportedly in #Mauritania’s Paris Embassy. Don’t know when he was discharged, and no news regarding return to Mauritania. Reuters http://reut.rs/PR1rPm
#Mauritania: Sex, Lies and Videotape
Let’s break with tradition and do the sex part first. Yes, it has been suggested that there is a sex angle to the accidental shooting story of president Aziz in Mauritania! This is a quandary, as everyone is adamant that they do want the truth, but at the same time, no one wants it to […]
Kinross-Tasiast Mauritania: Questionable Values
Kinross-Tasiast has been a hot topic in the mining community for at least two years, since the take-over of Red Back mining in September 2010, stirring much speculation among stock market traders as well as anticipation from unemployed Mauritanian graduates. Yet it remains an impenetrable mystery. The precious ore is extracted far from prying eyes hoping to catch a glimpse of […]
News from Iran – Week 39 – 2012
Prisoners’ News A-Transfers Kurdish political prisoner Shahram Elyasi, servinglife imprisonment, transferred from Evin prison to Rajai Shahr prison B- Arrests/Incarcerations Nursing mothers Zahra Nik-Aein and Taraneh Torabi sent to prison to serve their sentences along with their infants Mehdi Rafsanjani arrested after being summoned to court on return from spending 2 years in the UK […]
AQIM Releases Recent Video of 4 French Hostages taken from Niger in 2010
Sahara Medias website [ar] in Mauritania has released this video of four of the six French hostages being held by AQIM in or around Mali. These four were abducted from the Arlit uranium mine in Niger in September 2010, along with three others who were since released. Once again, they plead for protection from the French authorities. […]
