Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has on Monday condemned the arrest of the director of Taqadoumy, HAnevy Ould Dehah, after an allegedly complaint from opposition leader.

Hanevy Ould Dahah, 34, founder and manager of Mauritania’s leading news website www.taqadoumy.com was arrested on June 18 in Nouakchott when members of Mauritania’s security forces without presenting him with any charges, he was handcuffed and led to a police station in Mauritania’s capital.

A coalition of opposition groups on Saturday called on Mauritania's feuding figureheads to adhere to an "unwritten" arrangement as the country slid back into political stalemate.

Mauritania's much delayed power-sharing deal between military rulers and their political opponents is facing new difficulties over the army's refusal to dissolve the ruling council that took power following last August's coup.

Mauritania's National Front for the Defence of Democracy (FNDD) has accused the junta leader, General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, of violating the peace agreement reached in Dakar, Senegal, recently for the restoration of constitutional order in the country.

The committee in charge of implementing the Mauritanian political agreement, which was signed in Dakar recently, has called on the parties to the crisis to assemble in the Senegalese capital for fresh talks, according to an official statement, made available to PANA here, on Friday.

The judicial police in Mauritania has on Thursday arrested, Hanvy Ould Dehah, the publisher of the popular website, Taqadoumy, just seven days after his arrival to Nouakchott from the US.

Mauritania's only Islamist party named its leader, Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour, on Sunday as its candidate for the July presidential election, the first polls since a military coup last year.

Mauritania's resigned Junta chief, Gen Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, on Saturday evening has returned back to Mauritania after three-day visit to France. The come-back comes amid the talk about a deal to end the conflict over the application of Dakar paln, brokered on last week.

In a victory for diplomacy and African-led efforts to restore democratic order, Mauritania's military rulers and opposition leaders have agreed to end the political crisis that has isolated the West African nation since a coup last August.