Mauritania

Since he was old enough to climb into a boat, Samata Mahmoud has been fishing the vast, dune-lined waters of Mauritania' ...

From the Mauritanian coast, Ahmed, a Senegalese man, looks towards Europe, the place he dreams of being but fears he wil ...

Boubacar Ould Messaoud, a rights activist who fought incessantly to wipe out slavery in his native Mauritania, died on T ...

Woumpou, Mauritania ndash; On a humid October afternoon in Woumpou, Kadia stands where her front yard used to be. Aroun ...

Mauritania's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's second appeal against his conv ...

Mauritania's role as a key transit hub for African migrants seeking passage to Europe has come into sharp focus, followi ...

The election of Sidi Ould Tah as president of the African Development Bank marks a new chapter for the institution amid ...

Mauritania's former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday heading the race to become Africa's next super banke ...

An appeals court sentenced Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for ...

One evening in December 2011, five armed men arrived in a vehicle, fired at the Mauritanian gendarmerie post at Adel Beg ...

A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on ships of the desert may conjure images of the past but Mauritania's camelba ...

Ismaila Bangoura has bad dreams about the night when, he says, Mauritanian police burst into the place in Nouakchott he ...