Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, faced beatings, electrocution mock executions and sexual humiliation in America’s notorious Guantanamo Bay prison

Lawyers of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz criticised the magistrate who charged their client with money laundering, corruption, and illicit enrichment for withholding the indictment file against him. In...

Mauritania today began its COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a shipment of 50,000 doses arrived from China. President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani supervised the process, which took place in the National...

Qatari and Mauritanian officials met in Doha yesterday to discuss restoring diplomatic ties for the first time since they were severed as part of the 2017 boycott of Qatar by a...

Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who has been placed under judicial supervision on charges of corruption, on Thursday threatened to break silence via his lawyer, which could...

Jared Kushner, envoy to the Middle East of former US President Donald Trump, has said that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Mauritania are on the brink of normalising ties...

The volume of global food waste reached 931 million tonnes in 2019, 40 million of which originated in the Arab world, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced in a report...

The former President of Mauretania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, appeared in court yesterday on corruption charges, one of more than a hundred defendants including former officials. There was tight...

Make tracks for one of the world's heaviest and longest trains...

Our interview with Mauritanian-American activist Nasser Weddady discussing corruption in Mauritania

Some 200 Mauritanian scholars and imams issued a fatwa on Sunday prohibiting the normalisation of relations with Israel, considering any relations with "the Zionist entity that usurped the land...

The number of refugees heading to Europe will increase this year due to the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic, the Director-General of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development...

The Sahara Press Service (SPS) owned by the Polisario Front reported that the movement's forces bombed the Guerguerat region on Saturday evening. The news agency quoted a military source as saying that...

Cairo has made its conflict against Ankara a foreign policy priority, rendering all regions a potential battleground, even the African Sahel region, which has generally been excluded from the...

Mauritanian MPs called to enact legislation criminalising the normalisation of relations with the Israeli occupation. In a joint statement the Union of Forces of Progress (UFP), People's Progressive Alliance (APP),...

The official website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has used a map which shows Morocco included with the Western Sahara region. The publication of the "undivided" map...

The Mauritanian army has announced on Wednesday an "accidental" confrontation with a Moroccan force at the northern borders of the country. The army disclosed in a statement published on...

Mauritania's former President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi died last night, with the presidency announcing three days of official mourning. According to local media, Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, 82, died...

The Moroccan prime minister said on Sunday that interference in the Guerguerat buffer zone in disputed Western Sahara were "not a direct military action but a peaceful act" to...

The Polisario Front threatened on Monday to end the ceasefire agreed with Morocco if the Kingdom allows troops or civilians into the Guerguerat buffer zone on the border between...

Over 180 refugees have died off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal in recent botched migration attempts, local authorities said yesterday. At least 140 migrants drowned after a vessel...

Authorities in Mauritania have frozen the assets of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz following his arrest last month and the impending investigation into financial corruption during his ten years in...

Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz refused to answer questions relating to the source of his wealth

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani has just completed his first year in power by launching a campaign to fight corruption and protect public funds. As part of this...

Mauritanian authorities released former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz at dawn on Monday and placed him under surveillance a week after his detention pending an investigation on "suspicions of...

In the last 48 hours, Spanish authorities have discovered the lifeless bodies of 20 people trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa in rafts, Anadolu Agency reports. In August alone,...

The former Mauritanian President Ould Abdel Aziz has been placed under investigation on charges of corruption, after a parliamentary committee scrutinised his ten years in office. Ould Abdel Aziz...

Mauritania, a member of the Arab League, said it trusts the "wisdom and good judgement" of the United Arab Emirates leadership for signing an accord with Israel to agree...

The ministers who will serve in the new Mauritanian government headed by Mohamed Ould Bilal were announced on Sunday. The announcement was made by the Secretary-General of the Presidency,...

The Public Prosecution of the Nouakchott Court has announced the arrest of several suspects alleged to be involved in the embezzlement of $2 million of foreign exchange reserves from...

The health official demanded residents increase their liquid intake during this period, taking particular care of children and the elderly

A piece of a Chinese rocket launched as an experiment to send humans to the moon in the future has crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of...