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    Mauritania’s main opposition party on Saturday held a sit-in outside the Interior Ministry in Nouakchott to press for an independent electoral commission and equal access for political parties to the state media, news organisations reported.

    Hundreds of members and leaders of the Union des Forces démocratiques-Ere nouvelle (UFD-EN) participated in the protest, AFP said.

    The UFD-EN is led by Ahmed Ould Daddah, who was detained on 24 April on the accusation of inciting violence, but was released without charges five days later.

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