Morocco and Mauritania have both lauded the strong relationship existing between the two countries, while expressing their shared resolve to give a new momentum to their cooperation. This came during the talks held this Friday in Rabat between head of the Moroccan Government Saad Eddine el Othmani and visiting Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. […]
Even though UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has hailed the peaceful conduct of the elections in Mauritania last Saturday, calling on the various parties to continue to show responsibility awaiting the results, the delay in the proclamation of the results of the vote was strongly denounced by the Democratic Opposition Election Alliance (AEOD), which said the […]
In Mauritania, the provisional results of the legislative, regional and local elections held last weekend were to be published on Tuesday by the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI). Yet, the first indications show the results are favorable to the ruling party, the Union for the Republic (UPR), followed by the Islamist opposition party Tewassoul. The […]
German peacekeepers from MINUSMA, the United Nations Mission in Mali have embarked on a mission to patrol the “road of death”, searching for clues of explosive devices. Located in the southwest of Gao, in the middle of the savannah, the road is one of the most dangerous in the war-stricken northern region of the West […]
Moroccan ambassador to Mauritania, Hamid Chabar has visited the facilities of the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM) in the West African nation. The mining company, the largest in Mauritania, accounts for 15% of the country’s GDP. ONYHM, the Moroccan National Bureau of Petroleum and Mines, holds 2.30% of the company’s capital. On the sidelines […]
It’s official. Mauritania’s deputy chief of staff General Hanena Ould Sidi has been officially appointed to lead the combined five-nation “G5 Sahel” force. General Ould Sidi, a graduate of a Moroccan military school, has been appointed to replace General Didier Dacko who is G5 Sahel Joint Force Commander since 2017. General Didier Dacko has been […]
The Rally of Democratic Forces (RFD) of Mauritanian opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah has announced that it will participate in the parliamentary and local elections scheduled for September 1, 2018. Mauritanians will then choose members of parliament as well as regional and local councilors. Ahmed Ould Daddah, the several-time unfortunate presidential candidate, made the announcement […]
The 31st summit of the African Union (AU) ended on Monday in Mauritania with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), anti-corruption and security on the top of the agenda. A deadly bombing of a military base in neighboring Mali shortly before the start of the summit and a car bomb targeting French soldiers on […]
The National Forum for Democracy and Unity (FNDU), a group of the Mauritanian opposition, calls on participants at the upcoming African Union summit in Nouakchott to seize this opportunity to challenge African leaders on the nature and mode of governance of President Mohamed ould Abdel Aziz. Mauritania is the official host of the 31st Ordinary […]
Mauritanian former senator Mohamed ould Ghadda is victim of “arbitrary” detention and must be released with the benefit of compensation, a working group of the United Nations said in a statement. Mauritanian authorities arrested Ghadda on August 10, 2017, five days after Mauritanians voted in a referendum to dissolve the country’s Senate, of which […]
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