NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz left Nouachott Friday, saying he was going back to France for “planned medical tests,” less than a week after returning to Mauritania from Paris.
Aziz was evacuated to France on Oct. 14 after being accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers in a “friendly fire” incident that remains murky.
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