Soldiers overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected president in a coup yesterday and announced a military junta was taking charge of the northwest African Islamic state.
Soldiers seized President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi at his palace after he sacked senior army officers during a political crisis in the country, which is one of the continent's newest oil producers.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2008/08/07/coup_ousts_mauritanias_first_democratic_president/
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