Mauritania ex-president in court for graft charges appeal

Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz appeared in court on Wednesday at the opening of his appeal against a jail sentence for abuse of power and embezzlement. Aziz, who ruled the 4.5 million-population country between north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2019, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail [...]The post Mauritania ex-president in court for graft charges appeal appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News.

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