A desert country in Northwest Africa, Mauritania is an underrated travel destination. The country gets overlooked for many reasons. Despite persistent strides from local activists, slavery is still ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have returned to south-eastern Mauritania to provide care to Malian refugees and the communities hosting them. Over the past two years in this border region of ...

Radiotherapy, the medical use of ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells, is often an essential supplementary treatment method to other cancer therapies. It is effective and economical in the curative ...

Mauritania has secured their place in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations for the third consecutive time after defeating Gabon 2-1 ...

Nouadhibou, Mauritania – When Omar*, a 29-year-old bricklayer from rural Gambia, crossed the border into Mauritania in March, he came in search of the better pay he’d heard he could find. He settled ...

Army commanders ousted Mauritania's first freely elected president in two decades Wednesday after an increasingly bitter political fight over his ties to allies of a reviled former dictator and his ...

Mauritania has secured a total of $289.5 million to develop two solar power generation and transmission projects. The lion’s share of the funds will go toward a recently approved 225 kV electricity ...

The third quarter of 2023 is set to bring the launch of BP and its partners’ huge Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) offshore gas field. Straddling the border between Mauritania and Senegal promises a big ...

Mauritania’s coast guard said Wednesday it rescued 132 irregular migrants off the country’s coast. In a statement, the coast guard said 104 aboard the vessel were Senegalese, and the rest were Gambian ...

A lawsuit has been filed against the ex-President of Mauritania, a small country on Africa's northwestern coast. The suit alleges Mauritania's Arab government once perpetrated a campaign of ethnic ...