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Ex-president acquitted

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    A Nouakchott court yesterday acquitted ex-president Ahmed Ould Daddah and another opposition politician of encouraging intolerance and disturbing public order and security, AFP reported.

    Ould Daddah, leader of the Union des forces dimocratiques (UFD)and UFD member Mohameden Ould Babah, had been arrested in December, kept under house arrest, freed in mid-January and then charged after they accused the government of agreeing to accept Israeli nuclear waste in Mauritania.

    Their acquittal was welcomed by UFD supporters and a group of 70 lawyers who had come together to defend them on a voluntary basis, AFP said.

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