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...

These are challenging times for North Africa’s Muslim governments. Even as Daesh is ousted from its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the extremist group is continuing its battle against...

Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia yesterday received the new UN envoy to the Western Sahara, Horst Kohler, the Algerian government said in a brief statement. “The meeting was held...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said today that the Arab world population has reached 359 million in 2017. According to the UNFPA report the life expectancy at birth...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) warned yesterday that new memberships of Maghreb countries to African economic unions might lead to the dissolution of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU),...

The Mauritanian Minister of Culture and Government Spokesman Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh has expressed hope in the possibility of opening its border post with Algeria which is currently designated...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa has given his country’s full backing for a final solution to the Western Sahara issue under...

Mauritania and Tunisia will meet today in the Moroccan capital Rabat to discuss steps to prevent torture in North Africa. The meeting has been organised by the Association for the...

A record 29 states, including China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have retaliated in the past year against citizens who cooperate with the United Nations, the UN human rights office in Geneva...

Relations between Mauritania and neighbouring Morocco are could be rattled after Rabat agreed to host a number of Mauritanian opposition activists, political sources revealed. The sources, who asked not...

The National Independent Elections Committee in Mauritania announced on Monday that 85.61 per cent of the electorate had voted “Yes” in a referendum on new constitutional changes, Anadolu has...

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has denied reports that he and his family had fled the country amid ongoing anti-regime protests. Speaking at a rally in the northern...

When the decision was made to blockade Qatar, the three countries behind it, as well as the failed governments that followed them, believed that the Qatari government and people...

Mauritanian authorities have declared their border with Algeria a military zone which will be prohibited to civilians. “The Ministry of National Defence informs the entire population, and in particular...

The government of Mauritania has suspended projects financed by Qatari charities in the wake of a decision to sever relations with Doha. Housing projects funded by Qatar in the...