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- Soldiers staged a coup in Mauritania on August 6, 2008The Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz announced as the new leader of Mauritania's "state council"The Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was detained during the coupThe Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- Abdallahi was reportedly being held in the presidential palace in Nouakchott, MauritaniaThe Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- Coup was staged after Abdallahi fired four top military officialsThe Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- Abdallahi became Mauritania's first democratically elected president in 2007AFP: Coup in Mauritania as president, PM arrested (August 6, 2008)
- Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waqef was also detained during the coupThe Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
- No immediate reports of violence in the African nation in the wake of the coupThe Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008)
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On August 6, 2008, Renegade troops staged a coup in Mauritania, detaining the African nation's president and prime minister. During a brief announcement on state television, Gen. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was named as the new leader of Mauritania's "state council."The Associated Press: Mauritania coup leaders announce new junta (August 6, 2008) New presidential elections are scheduled for June 6, 2009, 10 months following the coup.AFP: Mauritania to revamp voters' roll ahead of June poll (June 30, 2009)
The African Union put sanctions on the military government in February of 2009, including a ban on travel for members of the junta and a check on their bank accounts.BBC News: Sanctions put on Mauritania junta (February 6, 2009)
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