New Delhi, June 9 -- Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been ousted in a sudden military coup while traveling abroad for a funeral, officials familiar with the matter said Monday, plunging one of West Africa's few remaining Western-aligned nations into a deepening political crisis. The president's absence provided what military officials described as a "strategic window" for intervention. Tanks [.]

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