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An agreement between Mauritania and Spain to protect and boost mutual investments came into force Thursday enabling both countries to expand economic cooperation. Signed on March 4, this agreement aims at scaling up bilateral economic cooperation. It also enables both countries to protect mutual investments by creating a legal framework for businessmen from both countries […]
Tensions raised high in Mauritania Wednesday as the Government went public calling for constitutional change to allow the current President to stand for elections in 2019, in contrast to current constitution which limits power to two terms in a row. On Tuesday, the Government’s spokesman Mohamed Lemine Ould Cheikh said at a press conference that […]
Sunni religious experts of several countries met in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to discuss ways to overcome terrorism which has tarnished the image of Islam, misused by terrorists to kill innocent lives as it occurred in Brussels on Tuesday. The two-day meeting gathered prominent Sunni religious experts who have condemned the Brussels attacks and distanced […]
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has included the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces into its Interoperability Platform and enhanced military cooperation and special forces training with Egypt, Tunisia and Mauritania. Addressing the just-concluded NATO-Morocco Public Diplomacy Seminar held in Rabat, NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said the new program aims at strengthening the defense […]
The terror group Al Qaeda discussed in 2010 the contingency to strike a peace deal with Mauritania in return of an annual “tithe” of $11 to $22 million, according to documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout and declassified Tuesday by the FBI. The unveiled deal stipulates that Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Mauritania’s real GDP growth to reach 4.2 percent in 2016 thanks to a rebound in mining production. After concluding a recent review of the country’s economic situation, the IMF says economic activity in the non-extractive sector is expected to remain subdued, with growth slowing marginally to 2.9 pc in […]
Predictions made years ago by many a pundit about the Tindouf-based separatists’ schemes to lay hand on the drug trafficking market in the Sahel-Sahara region have been confirmed once and again, and most recently by a Mauritanian official. Ahmadou Abdel Malek, the official spokesman in France of the Mauritanian ruling Union for the Republic, told […]
Human rights groups in Mauritania have accused the Government of institutionalized racism after it appeared that the executive body prevented a youth soccer team from attending a tournament in Qatar because they were “slaves.” The Mauritanian Observatory for Human Rights (MOHR) Tuesday called on the Government to launch a probe into the refusal by authorities […]
Moroccan security authorities Tuesday succeeded in disrupting plans of seven extremists to join IS in Libya. The seven alleged militants, from Marrakech, Laayoune and Boujdour, were arrested as they were attempting to go to Libya through the Moroccan-Mauritanian border. According to a statement released by the Interior Ministry, the alleged terrorists were trying to cross […]
Mauritania is set to launch on Wednesday a new global initiative, the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI,) meant to improve the management of fisheries and preserve fish stocks. The move comes following the warning of economic affairs minister Sid’Ahmed Raïss who said that “overfishing by foreign boats is threatening our way of life.” Highlighting the dangers […]