Mauritania, Africa

Since the 1970s, Mauritania’s capital city has been growing explosively and today a million people call the scruffy, ramshackle city’s collection of...

The UN refugee agency is asking donors for US$7 million to help tens of thousands of Mauritanians return home nearly 20 years after ethnic fighting...

The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. ...

One month ago, Samba Djamanka was in the last semester of high school at Tanaf, a town in Senegal’s Casamance Region, when his father told him that...