Mauritania’s security chief has denied that an attack on his home was linked to last week’s alleged coup plot. Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at the house of Deddahi Ould Abdallahi on Sunday morning but no-one was hurt. But a BBC correspondent says most residents of the capital, Nouakchott, feel there must be a link with the discovery of an arms cache last week. It was the third alleged coup plot in the past 15 months. Full Story