Mauritania’s first freely elected president has formally resigned from office, paving the way for new elections more than 10 months after he was overthrown in a military coup.
Sidi Ould Sheikh Abdallahi handed over power to a transitional government on Saturday under a power-sharing deal with the soldiers who toppled him in August.
He announced his resignation just after midnight after a new round of talks with the country’s military rulers brokered by Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal’s president, in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital.
Source: AHU – David A-O
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