Mauritania, Africa

Straddling Arab and sub-Saharan Africa, the desert nation of Mauritania has had two changes of government in three months, ending in a military coup...

Ahmed Ould Neda, reporter of Akbar Info, a Nouakchott-based independent news agency was on August 7, 2008 arrested and detained by the Mauritanian...

Mauritania's President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed Waghf were arrested Wednesday in a military coup in Nouakchott,...

International leaders, heads of states and human rights lobbyists have condemned the military ouster of Mauritania’s President Sidi Mohamed ould...

Mohammed Ould Abdel Latif, an editor of the “Al Houriya” an Arabic language newspaper was on July 21, 2008 arrested and detained by the Mauritanian...

Irregular migrants trying to reach Europe are being arrested, ill-treated and collectively expelled from Mauritania without opportunity to challenge...

The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal...

President Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Cheikh took office as Mauritania’s first democratically elected civilian president in 47 years one year ago on...

Kadiata Malick Diallo is vice-president of the Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and a deputy in Mauritania’s National Assembly. She spoke to IRIN...

Mauritania is often held up as a beacon when it comes to the proportion of women elected to political office - a 20 percent minimum quota was...