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Following a crackdown on irregular migration by Mauritania in 2025, migrants began using more distant and hazardous departure ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani is on track to secure a second mandate after positioning the country as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by ...

This photo taken on July 17, 2025 shows the Mauritanian National Museum in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Nouakchott, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, is the capital of Mauritania and its political, ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – Dozens of Mauritanian students have used Facebook to organize a sit-in to demand the departure of the president and political reforms. The students gathered Friday afternoon ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — At least 49 people died and nearly 100 are still missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized this week, the Mauritanian coast guard said Friday. Authorities said the ...

VICENZA, Italy - Three Soldiers from 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support), based in Atlanta, Ga., conducted military medical exchanges with approximately 25 soldiers of the Mauritanian Medical ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Mauritania's defense minister vowed on Sunday that his country's peacekeepers will never be implicated in the type of sex abuse allegations that have rocked Central ...

1. We, Heads of State and Government of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, met in Nouakchott, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, on December 5, 2021. 2. We thank His Excellency Mr. Mohamed ...