Nouakchott, Mauritania

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...

Ali Sambadga showed IRIN the contents of his village grain bank - there are just two tonnes of maize left to help thousands of villagers stave off...

Food security experts predict that Mauritania, where 70 percent of food eaten is imported, may face its highest ever levels of hunger in 2008, and...

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

Efforts to reduce cases of obstetric fistula in Mauritania have been slowed by local customs and beliefs. “Fistula is seen as a punishment,”...

Gunmen have killed four French tourists in Mauritania, Africa. The police chief of Aleg, Mohamed Ould Lemine, told Associated Press that the...

Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. Only the passing of trains transporting minerals out...

Four months after the passing of a law criminalising slavery in Mauritania, anti-slavery activists hope newly-announced funding for the...

Taking her 15 year old daughter to see a psychiatrist was the last resort for Dianaba Dia. For months beforehand she had used a local doctor who...