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Article: VOA NEWS: MAURITANIAN POLICE ARREST OUSTED PRIME MINISTER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 21, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
Police in Mauritania have re-arrested former Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghef.
Representatives from his political party say he was detained Thursday in the northern town of Nouadhibou.
Mr. Waghef had been leading almost daily protests to reinstate President Sidi Ould Cheik Abdallahi, who was ousted ...