President of Mauritania overthrown

[John Dibble]

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Let's hope they fulfill that promise.

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Let's hope they fulfill that promise.

Judging by history in Africa the odds of that are probably about 10% or so. Probably will be like Pakistan.

Still this guy was just a Islamic-forcing dictator anyway, I'd take the military junta over him.

Yeah, that's why I said 'let's hope' - not a good chance, but you never know.

[John Dibble]

'The African Union said it "strongly condemns any seizure of power or any attempt to take power by force".'

Yeah, how dare force be used to overthrow a tyrant.

Maybe this will be a good thing, maybe not...not certain yet.

The AU seems to be very blatantly condemning every shift of power.  It's almost like they're worried about the same crap happening to their countries or something .... nah.

I just wish the military had combined its efforts with popular support or some civilian institution.  The military is inherently an anti-democratic organization (officers aren't elected), which would make me doubt its effectiveness in being able to implement democracy before even considering the fact that this is Africa we're talking about.

What's done is done, I hope the military opens up the country to investment and whatnot, or the people of Mauritania will suffer.

Yeah, if they at least open up at least a somewhat free market with free trade things should go fine.