Mauritania elections

Video: Mauritanians celebrate poll

 

 
 Mauritanians celebrate return to democracy 
 

Mauritania goes to the polls next Saturday to elect a new president following last year’s military coup.

Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, is being lit up with performances from musicians, poets and artists as election candidates try to woo voters amid the return to democracy.

Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.