Monday, July 20, 2009

Mauritania army 'to fight terror'

Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz

Gen Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has vowed to tackle terrorism, as substantially as its causes, after existence proclaimed the winner of Saturday's presidential election.

Gen Abdelaziz, who came to noesis in a takeover terminal year, said the grey would be strengthened.

Al-Qaeda's North individual radiophone has claimed individual attacks in Muritaniya - a US Negro was killed terminal month.

Gen Abdelaziz, who denied the election had been rigged, said conflict poverty and ignorance would also be priorities.

On Sun officials proclaimed he had won the enquiry outright, with 52% of the vote.

Even before the results were announced, his challengers said the outcome had been "prefabricated" and called for an planetary inquiry.

MAURITANIA ELECTION

  • Gen Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz 52%
  • Messaoud Ould Boulkheir16%
  • Ahmed Ould Daddah14%

Source: Interior Minister Mohamed Ould Rzeizim

Q&A: Muritaniya elections

Country profile: Mauritaniamap

But the generalized challenged the contestant to provide evidence to backwards up their claims.

"Whatever [they] say, our tent did not vow in fraud," he said.

"It's not enough meet to say there has been humbug - you have to provide proof."

In his prototypal programme conference after existence proclaimed the winner, Gen Abdelaziz said he took the danger of coercion seriously.

"We need to fisticuffs coercion in terms of security but also by improving the experience conditions of the grouping and conflict ignorance."

Earlier, digit of the main contestant candidates, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, told a programme conference: "The results which are starting to become out show that it is an electoral charade which is disagreeable to legitimise the coup."

A statement from the assemble of four challengers read: "We unwaveringly react these prefabricated results, secondly we call on the planetary community to place in place an investigating to drop some reddened on the electoral process."

Mr Boulkheir, the outward speaker of parliament, came second with 16% of the vote, patch veteran contestant cheater Ahmed Ould Daddah came ordinal with 14%, according to the authorised results.

Voter portion was 61%, the election commission said.

Fighting coercion had also been digit of Gen Abdelaziz's justifications for production the August 2008 coup, which ousted Mauritania's exclusive democratically elected cheater Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

He had been in noesis for inferior than a year and a half.

Last year's Paris-Dakar feat was cancelled after the ending of a kinsfolk of French tourists in Mauritania.
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