Is Mauritiana really facing a political crisis or is the coup being sensationalised by the media?

A Mauritanian lawmaker, Mohammed Al Mukhtar, announced that "many of the country's people were supporting the takeover attempt and the government was "an authoritarian regime" and that the president had "marginalized the majority in parliament." - Wikipedia

News media agencies usually take these events and turn them into catastrophic occurences creating dooms day imagery in order to sell their stories to the public but at the same time scare investors away from Africa. Perhaps Mauritiana did need a change of government?