A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the French Embassy in Mauritania on Saturday night, wounding two embassy guards and a woman in the street

According to initial results, Mauritania's last year coup leader Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz took the lead in the country's presidential election with 51.6 percent of votes out of the third of ballots counted

Mauritania on Saturday held its first national election since a military coup last August led by one of the candidates