Nouakchott, Mauritania

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...

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

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...

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government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal...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