An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be ...

In Mauritania the majority of the people were registered born on Dec. 31, including the prime minister, most cabinet members, army generals and ambassadors. Out of 30 current government ministers ...

"Almost all the patients are accompanied by their families," said Abeidi, calling it a "cultural specificity" of Mauritania. Outside the door to the ward, dozens of people were gathered ...

Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

Desperate to get to Europe, migrants from West Africa often travel in ... Senegalese-Gambian border area with 170 people on board. It capsized off Mauritania's south-western coast.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, today concluded a visit to Mauritania. This ...

Mauritania doesn’t make the news often. A vast desert country wedged between the Sahara and the Atlantic Ocean, very little of what happens in the nation of nearly 5mn people is the subject of ...

Mauritania served up another shock result at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals to dump 2019 winners Algeria out of the tournament with a 1-0 victory Mauritania served up another shock ...