Tag: Mauritania
Mauritanian coast guard intercepts migrant boat
A boat carrying 180 migrants was intercepted by the Mauritanian coast guard the U.N. migration agency said, less than two days after 62 migrants...
ISS: How has Mauritania managed to stave off terror attacks?
No terrorist attacks have been recorded on Mauritanian soil since 20 December 2011. On that day, a gendarme, Ely Ould Mokhtar, was kidnapped in...
Migrant boat sinks off Mauritania
Up to 57 people died after a ship from Gambia carrying 150 migrants sank off Mauritania, the UN migration agency said.
The perilous sea...
Ghazouani wins Mauritania presidential election
Mauritania’s government-backed candidate Mohamed Ould Ghazouani won the presidential election, cementing the power of a ruling party positioning itself as an ally of the...
Mauritanians go to the polls
Mauritanians will vote for a new president on Saturday in what is expected to be the West African country’s first peaceful transfer of power...
Mauritania receives CN235 transport
Mauritania’s military has taken delivery of a second hand CN235 transport aircraft from the United Arab Emirates.
The aircraft was delivered on 13 May in...
Embraer delivers first E175 to Mauritania Airlines
Embraer has delivered the first E175 regional jet to Mauritania Airlines, which will receive its second aircraft in the coming months.
The E175 was handed...
Mauritania possibly getting BT-67 ISR aircraft
Mauritania's air force may be on the receiving end of a single Basler BT-67 turboprop aircraft modified for the intelligence, surveillance and...
Released Mauritanian anti-slavery activists to continue fighting
Two anti-slavery activists freed from prison in Mauritania vowed an all-out fight to rescue their nation from one of the world's worst...
Mauritania orders two Embraer 175s
Embraer and Mauritania Airlines announced on 17 July at the Farnborough Air Show that they had agreed on a firm order for...
Presidential pep talk on Armed Forces Day
President Cyril Ramaphosa had his Commander-in-Chief cap on when he addressed the country’s airmen, military medics, sailors and soldiers in Polokwane last Friday.
Sadly, he...
