Mauritania News News Mauritania: Inside Mauritania’s mass deportation campaign targeting African migrants
Mauritania is of particular interest because of its proximity to Spain's Canary Islands. A 2025 report from Spain's National Security Department stated that in 2024, 25,081 people departed from ...
News Mauritania: 5 Cultural Experiences To Have In Mauritania
A desert country in Northwest Africa, Mauritania is an underrated travel destination. The country gets overlooked for many reasons. Despite persistent strides from local activists, slavery is still ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania Party Urges 30-Month Transition
A Mauritania party wants a 30-month transition under President Ghazouani as a third-term row builds, with sit-ins and a warning in parliament.
News Mauritania: A school helps migrants in Mauritania. Is it enough to keep them from leaving for Europe?
NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania — Eager students from throughout west Africa raise their hands as teachers guide them through math and classical Arabic. Then they race outdoors to meet their parents, who clean ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania: ‘Some of our neighbours have a bigger slavery problem than we do’
Making matters worse, the country has never gathered reliable data on the lingering phenomenon, with Mauritanian and international NGOs estimating that there are between 43,000 and 800,000 enslaved ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania goes to the polls with a regional security crisis and economic concerns among the issues
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania’s bid to become an African energy hub
Good morning and welcome back to Energy Source, coming to you from New York. US power stocks plunged yesterday after advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek forced investors to ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania's ruling party wins local and legislative polls ahead of presidential contest
The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week's legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday, a litmus test for the veteran head of state ahead ...
News Mauritania: Mauritania: A rare glimpse at one of the world's least-visited nations
Located almost entirely in the Sahara, Mauritania is home to centuries-old cities, desert oases and a coastal spectacle so vast you can see it from space. In an age when it's increasingly easy to ...