Mauritanian activists filed 10 lawsuits against former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz one day after he left the presidency and installed his successor, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, as new president.
A number of activists on Friday filed 10 lawsuits before the prosecutor in the western state of Nouakchott (where the presidential palace is based) against Ould Abdel Aziz, the independent Mauritanian News Agency reported.
She said that the acting seizure clerk received the claims filed by the young activists, and asked them to come back next Monday.
It quoted the claimants as saying that their claims relate to the period of Ould Abdel Aziz's running of the country since his coup against his predecessor, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdellahi, on 6 August 2008.
The country yesterday witnessed the first handover of power between two elected presidents, with former General Ould Ghazouani sworn in to succeed his friend and comrade Rafik.
The president was sworn in by the president of the Constitutional Council during an official ceremony at the "Morabitoun" palace near Nouakchott, after winning elections on June 22 with the support of his predecessor.