[Maghrebia] New Mauritanian Foreign Minister Naha Mint Hamdi Ould Mouknass on Wednesday (August 19th), called for a "fresh strategy in the fight against poverty and ignorance" as a way to counter the "cancer" of al-Qaeda, AFP reported. The terrorism of al-Qaeda is a "behaviour completely unrelated to the Mauritanian people", the minister told France 24. On Tuesday, al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for Mauritania's first-ever suicide bombing: the August 8th attack on the French embassy in Nouakchott.