The Ba‘thist Tendency in Mauritania

We haven't said much about Mauritania lately (which may be good because it's usually only their tendency to have coups that gets the attention of their neighbors), but Kal over at The Moor Next Door has an informative post on the Ba‘th Party/Tendency in Mauritania. I vaguely knew there were Ba‘this in Mauritania and that the Syrian and Iraqi wings of the Party both had sympathizers, but he's put together a lot of useful, if informal, background detail.