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MAURITANIA: Post‐Election Cabinet

MAURITANIA: Post‐Election Cabinet Despite promises of change, the status quo is maintained. President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz was sworn in on August 2nd for a second term in the presence of several African leaders. Abdelaziz was handed another five years with 82% of the vote on June 21st in polls boycotted by much of the opposition. He was cheered by thousands at the Olympic Stadium in the capital Nouakchott as he vowed to address the problems of the northwest African nation's poor and “fight corruption and mismanagement”. He also pledged to tackle racism and extremism, and said he would take on terrorism and organised crime by strengthening the army. The heads of state of the Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal and Chad attended the ceremony as well as diplomats and dignitaries from various other countries. ( © AFP 2/8 2014) On August 20th, Yahya Ould Hademine was appointed as the country's new Prime Minister in place of Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdah who had resigned earlier the same day after holding the post since August 2008. Born in 1953 in Hodhs Oriental, 1,000 km southeast of Nouakchott, Hademine is a metallurgical engineer by profession and held the portfolio of Equipment and Transport minister http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2014.05839.x
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Abstract

Despite promises of change, the status quo is maintained. President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz was sworn in on August 2nd for a second term in the presence of several African leaders. Abdelaziz was handed another five years with 82% of the vote on June 21st in polls boycotted by much of the opposition. He was cheered by thousands at the Olympic Stadium in the capital Nouakchott as he vowed to address the problems of the northwest African nation's poor and “fight corruption and mismanagement”. He also pledged to tackle racism and extremism, and said he would take on terrorism and organised crime by strengthening the army. The heads of state of the Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal and Chad attended the ceremony as well as diplomats and dignitaries from various other countries. ( © AFP 2/8 2014) On August 20th, Yahya Ould Hademine was appointed as the country's new Prime Minister in place of Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdah who had resigned earlier the same day after holding the post since August 2008. Born in 1953 in Hodhs Oriental, 1,000 km southeast of Nouakchott, Hademine is a metallurgical engineer by profession and held the portfolio of Equipment and Transport minister

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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