The Middle East Institute is pleased to host His Excellency Ahmed Ould Sid'Ahmed, Mauritania's Minister of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the current situation in Mauritania and the measures being taken to make good on its word to create conditions for democracy.

Minister Ould Sid' Ahmed represents Mauritania's ruling military council, which through an August 2005 bloodless coup ended the reign of former Mauritanian President Maaouya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya.