A swift and coordinated response by Mauritania's Ministry of Health, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and humanitarian partners, has successfully contained a diphtheria outbreak at the ...

IMF approves $86.9 mln extended fund facility for Mauritania By Reuters January 25, 20231:36 PM PSTUpdated January 25, 2023 ...

On the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), Senegalese President Bassirou ...

Sand surrounds a hut in Chinguetti, Mauritania, Feb. 4, 2025. Community leader Melainine Med El Wely feels agonized over the stakes for residents and the history contained within Chinguetti's walls.

Mauritania grants bail to ailing ex-president amid graft probe By Reuters January 8, 202212:07 AM PSTUpdated January 8, 2022 ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mister X, hip hop impresario of Nouakchott, tells the history of slavery in rap. In a four-act “slam,” as it's known here — basically an episodic mix of spoken ...

Mauritania’s fertility rates have dropped so their low human density will continue. Two of its neighbors, Senegal and Morocco, are doing better than Mauritania, which could help pull it up.

Nasser Weddady My brother is in jail in Mauritania — for reporting on a massive fraud April 1, 2019 More than 6 years ago ...

Mauritania, a North African country straddling the Great Sahara and the Atlantic, has undergone drastic change of government for the second time in just three years. In 2005, a military coup ...