A meeting in Algeria on Sunday saw the Chiefs of Defence Staff from Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger agreeing to join forces to fight...

Two UN watchdog organizations today urged the United Nations General Assembly to reject five candidates for the United Nations Human Rights Council- Libya, as...

Students have been up in arms, since March 25, against the Arabization of Mauritania, as expressed by members of the government on March 1,...

Overtaken by an overpowering sense of relentless cultural oppression and marginalization, Black-Mauritanians continue to express their resentment after two recent speeches, by the Prime...

The Mauritanian government, Sunday, spoke out on the burning issue of Arabization, which was raised by the Prime Minister and Minister of Youth and...

Tensions have risen to a fever pitch on the campus of the University of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania, since the month of March. Arabization...

Hundreds of Black Mauritanian students gathered at the University of Nouakchott Tuesday to express their outrage against what they call a "comprehensive Arabization" of...

Representatives from seven African countries met, Tuesday, March 16, in Algiers to assess the security situation in the Sahel-Saharan region. Participants at the conference...

More food and more access to food for the hungry in East-Central Mauritania, the country's most vulnerable region. This is the goal of the...

A spokesman claiming to represent Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings last month of four Europeans in Mali...

The Al Qaeda terrorist group in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Tuesday claimed responsibility for the abduction of a French and three Spanish nationals, respectively kidnapped...

Al-Qaeda is reportedly behind the abduction of the three Spanish humanitarian workers Sunday in Mauritania, indicates Senego.com. The country has been at the mercy...

Three Spanish humanitarian workers, two men and a woman, were abducted Sunday in Mauritania as they travelled in a convoy. The convoy, which left...

According to Paris, the locally criticised election that sought to legitimise Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz’s presidency took place under internationally acceptable conditions. In other...

The president of the Independent National Electoral Commission of Mauritania (CENI), Sid'Ahmed Ould Deye announced his resignation Thursday. The electoral official expressed "doubts" over...

After denouncing massive fraud during the July 18 presidential election, three candidates filed an appeal Tuesday evening before the Niger Constitutional Council, RFI has...

Gen Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, who led a military coup in 2008 and ousted Mauritania's only democratically elected leader, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, has conducted...

Mauritanian presidential elections scheduled for last Saturday but boycotted by the opposition has been postponed to July18. According to the Senegalese delegation, the postponement...

Police dispersed demonstrators opposed to the August 6 coup Monday as they gathered in support of anti-coup Mauritanian MPs taking part in a sit-in...

The European Union (EU) decided Monday to suspend its co-operation with Mauritania for two years, Wa Bayne said. The EU initiated consultations with Nouakchott...

United States Department of StateGordon DuguidActing Deputy Department Spokesman, Office of the SpokesmanBUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRSWashington, DCMarch 26, 2009The United States welcomes and...

General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, visiting Kaédi, spoke for the first time to victims of the Maaouiya Sid'Ahmed Taya regime, reported RFI on Wednesday....

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union Tuesday 24 March decided to maintain sanctions against the military junta in Mauritania, RFI said....

Police in Mauritania have foiled an attempt by an unidentified Mauritanian citizen to attack the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott Wednesday, security sources said. According...

On Wednesday 6th of August 2008, a group of high ranking military personnel, who were dismissed from their post earlier in the day, ousted...

Four former managing directors of Mauritanian airline company, Air Mauritania, which went into liquidation in January 2008, were charged with embezzlement and held in...

The Libyan leader, Moummar Kadhafi, has thrown his weight behind the military junta in Mauritania, the Mauritanian news agency reported Sunday.Kadhafi was said to...

Mauritania has been suspended from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, announced Saturday at the opening of the ARPM...

Mohamed Ould Maouloud, chairman of the opposition Union of the Forces of Progress (UFP), said Thursday that a foreign power was behind the 6...

Mauritania's former President (1980-1984), retired Colonel Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah, Thursday denounced "the continuous attacks on members of his family since 1990." Haidallah cited...