Category: Mauritania

Mauritania: Opposition Threatens to Quit Dialogue as Gvt calls for Third Term for President Abdel Aziz

October 12, 2016

Moderate opposition parties in Mauritania, which are taking part in the political dialogue organized by the regime, have threatened to walk out of the process ... Read More

Mauritania: Leading Opposition Movements Reject President’s Call for Inclusive Dialogue

October 3, 2016

Mauritania’s main opposition parties have boycotted President Ould Abdel Aziz’s call for national inclusive dialogue, which they believe is a covert agenda to maintain the ... Read More

Mauritania: Private Newspapers Go off to Protest Difficult Work Conditions

September 28, 2016

Mauritania’s main stream private newspapers have chosen to go off on Wednesday in a move to denounce unbearable work conditions coupled with authorities’ tight grip ... Read More

Mauritania: Regime Turned Country into Cash Cow, Anti-Slavery Activist

September 27, 2016

Leader of the anti-slavery movement IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) has slammed President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s regime for looting the ... Read More

Mauritania-Morocco: End of Tension between Nouakchott & Rabat?

September 22, 2016

A number of recent developments noticed both in Mauritania and Morocco have heralded normalization of diplomatic ties between the two Maghreb countries following a recent ... Read More

Mauritania: Men of Trust, President Ould Abdelaziz’s Shield

September 14, 2016

The Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, in power since 2008, has been unshaken by the opposition for many reasons, but if he still has a ... Read More

Mauritania-Drug Trafficking: Prison Sentence for Sons of Ex-President Upheld

September 5, 2016

A court in Nouakchott has upheld the prison sentences handed to two sons of former Mauritanian president Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla involved in a drug ... Read More

US Condemns Imprisonment, Torture of Anti-slavery Activists in Mauritania

August 23, 2016

The United States has recently condemned in strong terms the imprisonment and the torture endured by anti-slavery activists in Mauritania. The US condemnation came after ... Read More

Mauritania: Prosecutor Demands 20 Years in Prison for Slave Abolitionists

August 19, 2016

The Mauritania state prosecutor Wednesday demanded 20-year prison sentence for members of the Mauritanian anti-slavery association arrested last month for “prompting armed protest in a ... Read More

Mauritanian Slavery Abolitionists Endure Torture in Custody, Lawyers say

August 17, 2016

Thirteen anti-slavery activists on trial in Mauritania said they have been tortured during their detention, their lawyers said. The activists, on trial for "rebellion and ... Read More