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

Such “green belts” have been proposed on a continent-wide scale as Africa's “Great Green Wall” as well as locally, in towns like Chinguetti ... there are still people convinced that ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...

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 ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

Climate change and conflict are fuelling a resurgence of cholera in Africa, with progress toward elimination undermined by ...