After the military ousted Mauritania’s first democratically elected president, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the European Union “warns the military junta that the country faces the serious risk of long-lasting isolation from the international scene.”
Meanwhile, a senior official of the Cairo-based Arab League says that life is back to normal in Mauritania, after visiting the country for talks with its political leaders in a bid to “help resolve the crisis and preserve the democratic process in the country.”
