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 ...

Mauritania has secured their place in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations for the third consecutive time after defeating Gabon 2-1 ...

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have returned to south-eastern Mauritania to provide care to Malian refugees and the communities hosting them. Over the past two years in this border region of ...

Nouadhibou, Mauritania – When Omar*, a 29-year-old bricklayer from rural Gambia, crossed the border into Mauritania in March, he came in search of the better pay he’d heard he could find. He settled ...

At the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Tanzania, Mauritania secured a 1-0 win over Central African Republic in their third ...

Mauritania has secured a total of $289.5 million to develop two solar power generation and transmission projects. The lion’s share of the funds will go toward a recently approved 225 kV electricity ...

Army commanders ousted Mauritania's first freely elected president in two decades Wednesday after an increasingly bitter political fight over his ties to allies of a reviled former dictator and his ...

Mauritania’s coast guard said Wednesday it rescued 132 irregular migrants off the country’s coast. In a statement, the coast guard said 104 aboard the vessel were Senegalese, and the rest were Gambian ...

The third quarter of 2023 is set to bring the launch of BP and its partners’ huge Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) offshore gas field. Straddling the border between Mauritania and Senegal promises a big ...