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Archive for October 17th, 2008

Stanctions start

The sanctions have started (beginning with US travel bans), as hannes noted in the comments. We’ll see how this affects the situation. I promise a longer post before the middle of the week (on Boulkheir).

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France on sanctions

The French Ambassador said on 15 October that France wanted to avoid sanctions (using some strong language) and that the litmus test for a legitimate solution was that “all political actors be involved, including President Sidi Mohamed Ould Sheikh Abdallah and his supporters, as well as General Aziz, parliamentarians favoring him and the democratic opposition, [...]

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