Two Killed in Mauritania’s Anti-Census Protest, Group Says

A second person died from wounds sustained in a protest in Mauritania against the country’s population census, said Wane Abdul Birane, the coordinator of a group that organized the demonstrations.

The deaths happened in the city of Maghama, 570 kilometers (354 miles) south of Nouakchott, the capital, as police attempted to halt yesterday’s protest by black Mauritanians against the census they claim is racist, said Birane, whose Don’t Touch My Nationality movement organized the event. Both people were shot, he said by phone today.