Mauritanian and Moroccan media reported that the Saudi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf has asked for an opinion on the kingdom’s desire to establish a military base in Mauritania from...

February 17 this year marks 30 years since the Arab Maghreb Union, better known by its French acronym UMA, was founded as an economic and political union bringing together...

Launched by the United States counterterrorism forces in 2005, Flintlock is an annual regional exercise that is back for a new edition. The military exercise will be held from February...

Saudi Arabia has promised to donate 100 million Euros ($114 million) to the G5 Sahel for development projects. The Saudi Press Agency reported Friday that Saudi Arabia has pledged...

The Euro- Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, called on the Algerian authorities to assume their responsibility in protecting Palestinian asylum seekers who arrived in Algeria from the Gaza Strip at the...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Algeria on Sunday from Mauritania, resuming a tour of Arab countries after attending the G20 summit in Argentina, Reuters reports. Prime Minister...

On Tuesday, Algerian Energy Minister, Mustapha Guitouni, has officially confirmed the upcoming visit of the Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, to Algeria without specifying the date. After a week of controversy about the...

Morocco on Monday urged Algeria to officially respond to a call by Rabat for direct dialogue between the two countries. Earlier this month, Moroccan King Mohammed VI proposed that...

US President Donald Trump will end Mauritania’s trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) at the start of next year, the US trade representative’s office has announced....

Britain’s Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Alistair Burt, on Friday, hailed Mauritania’s role in preserving the security of the G5 Sahel. Burt made the comments after a discussion with the...

Noureddine Ben Ysaad, the head of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, reported that 27 death sentences were issued in Algeria last year. However, the total number...

Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed received Algeria’s ambassador to Mauritania Noureddine Khandoudi and his Moroccan counterpart Hamid Chabar in two separate meetings. Morocco considered such diplomatic move...

Algeria and Mauritania yesterday opened the first border crossing post between the two countries with the aim of increasing trade and facilitate travel. Algerian Interior Minister, Noureddine Bedoui, and...

MEMO attended the 31st African Union Summit held in Nouakchott, Mauritania and talked with Niger's president, Mahamadou Issoufou

The results of the survey conducted by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies showed that 74 per cent of the respondents in 11 Arab countries support democracy,...

Hundreds of politicians and human rights activists demonstrated in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Sunday evening to demand “an end to all forms of slavery in the country”, Turkey’s...

Mauritanian Defence Minister, Jallow Mamadou Bhatia, has called on politicians not to involve the armed and security forces in political debate. The minister made the remarks during a press...

Several Moroccan political parties have denounced recent provocations by the Polisario Front and its incursions into the buffer zone. They called on the government to address these moves and...

Morocco has officially accused the Polisario Front of incursions into the buffer zone near Guerguerat, not far from the Mauritania border, and has called on the United Nations to...

Amnesty International has accused the Mauritanian authorities of the arbitrary detention and torture of anti-slavery activists. In a report issued on Wednesday entitled “A sword hanging over our heads’:...

Turkey is set to donate $5 million to aid in the fight against terrorism and trafficking in the turbulent Sahel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced yesterday during his...

A Mauritanian opposition figure and leading anti-slavery activist, Biram Ould Abeid, was arrested and interrogated by authorities this week following three days of demonstrations lead by the Resurgence of...

The European Union is set to double its funding for a multi-national military operation in West Africa’s Sahel region today, EU diplomats, part of a broader effort to fight...

About 570,000 Sahrawis live in the region, the vast majority in refugee camps along Algeria’s border for the last 26 years.

President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday France stood ready if needed to strengthen its military force fighting alongside African troops against insurgents in the Sahel. France has been seeking...

The UAE is the best country in the Middle East and North Africa to start a new business, the recently released Global Entrepreneurship Index for 2017 has revealed. The...

Mauritanian opposition parties have decried the authorities’ refusal to issue a permit for a planned demonstration against government policies. At a press conference held in capital Nouakchott yesterday evening,...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz yesterday received a member of the Polisario National Secretariat, Mustafa El Sayed, in his capacity as special envoy of the Polisario Secretary-General. The...

Sudan and Mauritania has signed ten Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) and executive programmes aimed at boosting the bilateral relations between the two countries in various fields. The agreements were...

The United States currently funds more than a quarter of the $7.3 billion UN peacekeeping budget

Cattle herders in West Africa are facing a severe lean season this year due to poor rains and insufficient plant growth, stoking the risk of conflict as they change...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz today met with the leaders of political parties that took part in last year’s national dialogue initiative, which was boycotted by the country’s...