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| President Abdelaziz appeared to be in good health on his return to Mauritania |
The
president of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has returned home for the first
time since being wounded by one of his own soldiers last month.
President Abdelaziz
was shot in the arm by a Mauritanian army soldier in what the government said
was an accident.
He had been
in France for the last six weeks receiving treatment.
Thousands
of people gathered at the airport to greet the president on his return to the
capital Nouakchott.
Large
crowds also lined the route between the airport and the presidential palace.
Reporters
present said the 55-year-old leader appeared to be in good health, and waved to
crowds from his car, though he gave no statement.
The soldier
responsible for shooting the president told Mauritanian television last month
that he had fired on a car that appeared suspicious while guarding a military
base outside Nouakchott, failing to realise that one of the occupants was the
president.
President
Abdelaziz seized power in a coup in 2008, in a country with a long history of
coups.
He won a
presidential election two years later and is seen by Western governments as a
bulwark against Islamists in the region.
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