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Article: Mauritania arrests former prime minister
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- August 21, 2008
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Police arrested Mauritania's recently ousted prime minister Thursday as he tried to attend a demonstration against the instigators of this northwest African country's Aug. 6 coup, his supporters said.
The bloodless coup was led by generals who accused the president they deposed of ruling the country like a dictator, including blocking parliament's attempts to investigate corruption charges against his wife.
President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and a number of top officials were taken hostage during the takeover, including then-Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef. All except Abdallahi, who remains under house arrest, were released after about a week.
Ahmed Ould Wadia, ...