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Al-Qaida claims attack

Al-Qaida's North Africa wing said yesterday it was responsible for a suicide bombing at the French embassy in Mauritania earlier this month that injured three people.

The bombing on August 8 in Nouakchott came three days after Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who overthrew the Islamic state's first freely elected leader last year, was sworn in as president, promising to make the fight against Al-Qaida a priority.