That will be Lemerre's first task, with Morocco playing Ethiopia away and then Mauritania at home.
Mauritania has been an ally of the United States, and it has significant oil reserves.
So there are several people, several groups, within Mauritania who wanted to see Ould Taya out.
He told General Abdelaziz that he had come to Mauritania to help everybody find a solution.
The African Union suspended Mauritania from membership in the wake of last week's coup.
The defendants include 19 Algerians, 5 Moroccans and others from Mauritania, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon and Spain.
In that capacity, he participated in several attacks launched on behalf of AQIM in Mauritania.
Mauritania's tolerant form of Islam and its tribal network provide a buffer against radicalism.
The defense team has called for Libya and Mauritania to be referred to the U.N.
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Camatte was abducted four days before the group kidnapped three Spanish aid workers from neighboring Mauritania.
Now they seem likely to welcome Mauritania fully back into the community of democracies.
Mauritania is a vast Saharan wasteland of more than a million square kilometres (400, 000 square miles).
Born outside Mauritania, she is the first generation of Marieme's family not to be scarred by slavery.
France is also in the process of requesting al-Senussi's extradition from Mauritania, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said.
Intelligence sources in the region say it has makeshift camps in remote desert bordering Algeria and Mauritania.
Mauritania's Organization of Consumer Protection head Moctar Ould Tauf said he welcomed the ban, Efe news agency reports.
It operates on a sub-regional level and involves five countries: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.
Last year, I worked with the CNN Freedom Project to produce a story on slavery in Mauritania.
The Libyan government has now requested his extradition after he was reportedly detained over the weekend in neighbouring Mauritania.
"I have terrible nightmares about the terrible things I lived through in Mauritania, " she said in her sworn testimony.
Launched on 25 November 2008, the pilot focused on five countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and The Gambia.
These were all minor countries, like Mauritania, where AU action could prove effective.
Its suspension of Mauritania was a move that automatically follows a coup but the AU's envoy, Lamamra Ramtane, sounded conciliatory.
When she does sleep through the night, she dreams about having the resources and the courage to return to Mauritania.
Mauritania has banned the use of plastic bags to protect the environment and the lives of land and sea animals.
This is not a situation that can be eased quickly, even with the extra millions freed up by Mauritania's creditors.
In the other game played that night, surprise Nations Cup qualifiers Zimbabwe survived a scare as they lost to Mauritania 2-1.
Mr Daddah, 65, an economist and brother of Mauritania's first post-independence leader, unsuccessfully ran against Mr Taya in 1992 and 2003.
Mauritania's communications minister, Abdulrahman Ould Mein, told the BBC's Focus on Africa that the former president is now a free man.
Health monitoring has been stepped up at ports from Kenya and Ethiopia in East Africa to Senegal and Mauritania in the west.
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