First Independent Mena Newspaper
The Algerian army Sunday killed a Mauritanian gold miner and wounded another one after six vehicles crossed into Algerian territory to prospect for gold. A joint statement by the Mauritanian interior and foreign ministries relayed by state-run news agency indicated that the Algerian army opened fired on Sunday morning on “a convoy of surface gold […]
Mauritanian Parliamentarians have filed a defamation suit against former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On April 15, in an interview with Jeune Afrique, former President Ould Abdel Aziz accused Parliament of having received a bribe of 300 million ouguiyas from the government, the equivalent of nearly 700,000 euros, to vote for the creation of […]
Mauritania’s President Mohamed ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has refused to receive a Polisario emissary who is in Nouakchott for five days, reported le360.ma, saying that the move irked Algeria which continues to pull the strings of the separatist militia. The Polisario envoy, Mustapha Sayed, has been in Nouakchott for five days without being able to […]
Mauritania and Qatar Sunday contemplated ways to resume diplomatic ties nearly four years after the African country cut off relations in support of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt that had severed ties with the Gulf country. Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani held talks Sunday in Doha with his Mauritanian counterpart Ismail […]
Mauritania is preparing for military drills near its northern borders with Algeria and Morocco in a bid to boost the readiness of its army to respond to Polisario incursions. The Polisario has often violated the territories of Mauritania to engage in provocations of Morocco’s armed forces and in all sort of trafficking in connivance with […]
World football governing body’s head Gianni Infantino unveiled Wednesday in Mauritania the first overseas branch of AB Sport, a Moroccan firm producing sport kits. Infantino, reports say, was joined at the ceremony by Ahmed Ould Yahya, the President of the Mauritanian football federation (FFRIM) and Mohamed Bessam El Aqil, CEO of the Moroccan company. The […]
Mauritania’s customs have released five vessels belonging to Ocean Fresh Food AS, a Norwegian company which has accepted to pay €2.6 million in fine, Le360.ma reports. Ocean Fresh Food AS according to its lawyer, Brahim ould Ebetty, has agreed to pay the penalty in a move to settle the lawsuit launched against it by the […]
Mauritania has signed the Agreement for the Establishment of the Fund for Export-Development in Africa (FEDA), a development impact-oriented subsidiary of the Afreximbank. Mauritania becomes the second signatory of the FEDA Establishment Agreement after Rwanda which signed it in November 2020, afreximbank announced in a press release. To complete the FEDA Legal Establishment, […]
No more prior administrative authorization is required to create associations in Mauritania as was the case since 1964. A declaration of creation is now sufficient. The former regime was considered by human rights organizations to be liberticidal, as it served as a pretext for the authorities to repress the leaders of unrecognized associations. Mauritania has […]
Mauritania whose economy has been hit by Polisario’s banditry is set to reinforce its military presence in its northern borders in a move that signals Nouakchott’s determination to avert the Polisario’s incursions into its territories. The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists have blocked a critical border passage linking Morocco to Mauritania for three weeks. The passage which […]