Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, the prime minister appointed by Mauritania’s military junta, said Tuesday that the government would ban all protests. “I think that since May we have done nothing else than protest in this country; we are going to limit that, actually we’re going to ban all demonstrations from all sides,” he told Radio France Internationale. The junta, which seized power in August, has promised to hold new elections soon, but no date has been set.