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Mauritania: Unemployment rate rises to 13.12% in fourth quarter of 2025

Mauritania’s unemployment rate increased to 13.12% in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from 12.29% during the same period in 2024, according to the Central Bank’s annual report for 2025. The report also showed a decline in the employment rate, which fell to 43.45% from 44.37% a year earlier, with the services sector remaining the […]

US maritime drills with West African navies aim to stop illegal fishing

American and European navies are teaming up with their counterparts from eight West African countries to conduct joint training operations off the coast of Senegal this week that are mainly aimed at combating illegal fishing off the West African coast. As unreported and unregulated fishing has spread along West Africa’s coasts, scooping up an estimate […]

Morocco’s King kick-starts Covid-19 national vaccination campaign, receives first dose of vaccine

King Mohammed VI has kick-started this Thursday at the Royal Palace in Fez, the national coronavirus vaccination campaign. On this occasion, the Sovereign received the first shot of the vaccine against Covid-19. The vaccination campaign is launched after Morocco received enough doses of the vaccine. Actually, the Kingdom received last week two million doses of […]