This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Tag: Mauritania
Algeria’s Double Speak on Maghreb Union
Algerian officials continue to issue statements calling for reviving the paralyzed Maghreb Union, a five-member regional grouping also comprising Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia and Libya. Recently, ... Read More
Outrage in Senegal after Mauritanian Border Guards Kill Two Fishermen
A crisis is brewing between the two West African neighbors, Mauritania and Senegal. It all started after Mauritanian coast guards shot dead two Senegalese fishermen. ... Read More
AU Rebukes Mauritania over Persistent Slavery
The African Union rebuked Mauritania for falling short of fully eliminating slavery after the country handed out lenient sentences to a slave owner. Mauritania should ... Read More
UN Envoy Invites Parties to Sahara Conflict to Separate Talks in Berlin
The UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Horst Kohler, invited the "parties to the conflict" to "separate talks" in Berlin, Moroccan media reported. ... Read More
Participants in the Africa Eco Race Ignore Polisario’s Futile Threats
The participants in the International Rally-Raid, Africa Eco Race, ignored the threats and injunctions of the Polisario and crossed safely the Guerguarat crossing post at ... Read More
UN Secretary General Warns Polisario of Hindering Traffic Flow on Moroccan-Mauritanian Border
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has warned the Polisario of obstructing commercial traffic flow between Morocco and Mauritania, after the Algerian-sponsored separatist group deployed ... Read More
Mauritania’s Flag Carrier Takes Delivery of First Boeing 737 MAX
Mauritania Airlines has added a Boeing 737 MAX 8 to its all Boing fleet including two 737-500s and two 737NGs (one -700 and one -800). ... Read More
Lemine Ould Aboy, Mauritania’s New Ambassador to Morocco
Mauritania has finally appointed Mohamed Lemine Ould Aboy as its new ambassador to Morocco; filling thus the position that has remained vacant since 2012. Mauritanian ... Read More
Exxon Mobil Taps into Mauritania’s Offshore Oil & Gas
Exxon Mobil and Mauritanian authorities have signed three production-sharing contracts for three deep-water exploration blocks. “These blocks further enhance ExxonMobil’s leading global deep-water acreage position,” ... Read More
Mauritanian Government: ‘Death Penalty for Blasphemy, Apostasy to Go into Effect’
The Mauritanian Government has vowed to apply death penalty for blasphemy and apostasy, few days after a blogger, accused of the punishable crime, managed to ... Read More