Bodyguards beat up Mauritanian journalist

A journalist was beaten up by bodyguards working for the wife of Mauritania's president. Elvaka Ould Cheibany, a correspondent with Nouakchott Info, believes the beating was a reprisal for an article about the growing power exercised by the country's first lady, Mint Boukhary. Two weeks before her bodyguards also assaulted a reporter with Radio Mauritanie. (Via AllAfrica.com)