Mauritania

Algeria yesterday condemned what it called Morocco's "targeted killings with sophisticated weaponry, outside of its internationally recognised borders" which led to killing of innocent civilians from three countries in...

The Spanish parliament yesterday condemned the government's shift in position over the Western Sahara, saying it has abandoned its "historic" neutral position on the conflict. The Spanish parliament said the government's...

On Wednesday, Tunisia affirmed its adherence to its firm position committed to the Arab Maghreb Union as a strategic option, expressing its pride of this historic gain. This came...

Mauritania and China yesterday signed an agreement under which China wrote off part of its debts owed by the Mauritanian government. The agreement was signed in the capital Nouakchott...

Staffan de Mistura, UN envoy to the Western Sahara, yesterday began his first visit to Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. De Mistura is going to meet Moroccan officials in Rabat, according...

Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was moved to the Nouakchott Military Hospital on Wednesday evening in order to receive emergency care, his attorney told AFP yesterday. Mohamed Eddine Ould...

Senegalese President Macky Sall began today a one-day visit to Mauritania, during which he will join his Mauritanian counterpart to lay the foundation stone for a bridge linking the...

The defence team of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz announced on Friday that the judiciary had denied a request for the provisional release of the president. He...

Normally, you do not hesitate to help your neighbours to defuse tension so that it does not affect you. However, if you were the direct or indirect cause of...

Moroccan authorities have extradited 12 suspected drug smugglers across a sealed land border to Algeria, a Moroccan official said yesterday. The official said Rabat "made efforts to speed up...

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday appealed to Morocco and Algeria to restore relations and to negotiate to resolve their differences. In a statement, the IUMS...

Morocco has denied allegations that it was responsible for the killing of three Algerian citizens in a "bomb attack" on trucks driving between Ouargla in Algeria and Nouakchott in...

The Mauritanian Court of Appeals in Nouakchott rejected a request on Monday for the conditional release of former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The court cited a possible violation...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has offered new financing to the Middle East and North Africa worth $16.6 billion to overcome the COVID-19 crisis, Anadolu reported yesterday. According to the report,...

Algeria has started large-scale activities to restore its influence in Africa by declaring it will write off the debts of 14 countries, a report published by Radio France International (RFI) confirmed....

Mauritanian authorities today announced the death of a child and the injury of ten others as a result of torrential rains and thunderstorms in the north and east of...

Mauritania has denied media reports that it has been making contact with Israel for the establishment of diplomatic relations, the Palestinian Information Centre has reported. According to Israeli media,...

A 14-year-old Mauritanian chess player has pulled out of the Junior World Cup because the draw set him up to face an Israeli player. "I decided to retire, because...

Seven Arabic speaking countries told the African Union (AU) yesterday that they reject granting Israel observer status in the bloc, Anadolu reported. Israeli Ambassador to Addis Ababa Aleli Admasu presented credentials...

The former President of Mauritania, Ould Abdel Aziz, is being held "arbitrarily" under "abusive" prison conditions, claim his lawyers. This contradicts the claims made by official news reports. According...

Ould Abdel Aziz will be placed in a private apartment for two weeks as part of coronavirus health measures, and moved to a jail thereafter.

Facebook blocked former Mauritanian Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Maham from posting on his page after he welcomed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who is visiting Nouakchott, Safa news agency reported yesterday. The former official welcomed Haniyeh...

Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani received the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in the capital Nouakchott on Monday, Anadolu news agency has reported. A delegation from...

President of the Mauritanian National Assembly, Sheikh Ould Ahmed Ould Bayeh, yesterday condemned the Israeli forces' invasion of Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacks on worshippers. In a tweet, Ould Bayeh described what...

The Syrian People's Assembly yesterday agreed to invite friendly Arab and foreign parliaments to observe the presidential elections scheduled in May, local media reported. SANA news agency said the parliaments...

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...