Mauritania, Africa

Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher who is being detained for criticizing the country’s military regime was on October 26, 2008...

Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher and former minister, was arrested on October 21, 2008 in Nouakchott, by members of the combined...

Bechir Ould Babana, the Editor In Chief of the Electronic newspaper Saharamedia, was on October 15, 2008; assaulted in Nouakchott by the Anti-Riot...

Following a meeting between Mauritania’s junta leaders and the European Union in Paris, EU officials have given the military officials one month to...

Mohamed Ould Moustapha, a cameraman with the local Mauritanian office of the Qatari television network, Al Jazeera, was assaulted on October 8, 2008...

Two legal practitioners, Lô Gourmo Abdoul and Moulay El Ghaly Ould Moulay Ely, lawyers for Khatou Mint El Boukhary Foundation, named after the wife...

Alleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania’s...

In a country that imports about 70 percent of its food, and where the UN estimates more than one million suffer from chronic malnutrition, some...

More Africans are risking transatlantic crossings to Europe after Mauritania’s military coup last week, according to Jerome Dukiya, a Catholic priest...

Recent visits between coup leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and leaders from the African Union, League of Arab States, United Nations, and Mauritania’s...