Mauritania, Africa

Yacoub Diop is a former police officer and the current chief of Medina Salam, a village on the Senegal River in southern Mauritania, which recently...

As Mauritanian refugees started their historic voyage from Senegal today, some Mauritanians said they feared the return would only burden the country...

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...