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Birame ould Dah ould Abeïd, leader of the anti-slavery movement IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement) has announced his comeback to Mauritania for Sunday January 15 after he conducted an eight-month international campaign to denounce the ongoing phenomenon in the North African country, the last country in the world still practicing the […]
Mauritania has announced that it will vote in favor of Morocco’s return to the African Union, local media said. “The Mauritanian government has responded positively to Morocco’s willingness to regain its seat in the African Union,” Al Massae daily paper reported, quoting a Mauritanian diplomatic source. The Mauritanian support for Morocco’s bid to regain its […]
The recent statements on Mauritania’s territorial integrity made by the Istiqlal party Secretary General “reflect only a personal point of view and are not in line with the permanent features of Moroccan diplomacy,” said Head of the Government Abdelilah Benkirane who had been received Wednesday by President Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania. Benkirane was dispatched […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco and President Mohammed ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania have voiced their shared determination to preserve the neighborliness and solidarity relationship existing between their two countries and to shield this relationship against any attempts to undermine it, whatever the origin or motivation of these attempts. This came during a phone call King […]
Moroccan Premier is expected in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott Tuesday in a move to reiterate Morocco’s full respect of Mauritanian territorial integrity after the verbal blunder of leader of the Moroccan Istiqlal Party who referred to Mauritania as part of Moroccan territory. The foreign affairs ministry has issued Monday a statement rejecting and rebuking in […]
The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has “vigorously rejected” as “dangerous and irresponsible” the statement made by the Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party on Mauritania’s territorial integrity and renewed full respect for the Mauritanian borders as internationally recognized. The Ministry said in a communiqué released on Monday that it “followed with concern the polemics […]
The parents of Cheikh Ould Mohamed Ould Mkheitir, a Mauritanian blogger condemned to death for apostasy, have filed asylum application in French embassy in Senegal arguing that their life has become a real hell for them in the North African country since the moment their son has been charged. Both mother and father of Ould […]
Chinese Polytechnology company, specialized in defense equipment, which has been under fire in Africa and around the world for bribery and money laundering, will build a military and commercial port at the Mauritanian city of N’Diago, sitting on the bank of Senegal River, few miles from the Senegalese city of St. Louis, reports say. The […]
The Mauritania regime has again irritated Rabat after it allowed the Polisario Front to send militaries to spy on Moroccan forces from the military buffer zone of Guerguerat located between the two counties. Polisario elements were allowed to sneak into La Güera small town through the Mauritania side, Moroccan daily Al Massae reported. The act […]
The 13 anti-slavery activists from the slavery abolitionist movement (known by its acronym IRA) have been seen their prison sentences reduced after an appeal court revisited their cases, reports say. Zouerate court of appeal Friday November 17 overturned the 20 years in prison pronounced against the activists on Wednesday November 16. The court in a […]