Tag: Mauritania
Mauritanian opposition announces boycott of presidential poll
Mauritania's main opposition parties announced on Sunday they would boycott a scheduled June 21 presidential election, in a move that threatens to...
Mauritania sets presidential election date
Mauritania will hold presidential elections on June 21, according to the presidency, despite a lack of agreement on the reform of election...
Exercise Saharan Express 2014 begins
Naval forces from the United States along with African and European maritime partners on Thursday commenced the fourth annual multinational exercise Saharan...
Mauritanians march over Koran desecration
Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted anti-government slogans in Mauritania's capital on Monday after local media reported Korans were desecrated in...
African nations form G5 to work on Sahel security, development
The leaders of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Burkina Faso agreed on Sunday to create a regional organization to strengthen cooperation on...
Islamists poised to enter parliament as Mauritania goes to polls
Voters in Mauritania went to the polls in Saturday in legislative and local elections expected to bring a once-outlawed Islamist party into...
Mauritania must wipe out persistent slavery, U.N. watchdog says
Slavery is still being practiced in Mauritania, even though the West African country made it a crime against humanity last year, a...
Mauritanian opposition parties to boycott legislative election
Mauritania's main opposition parties announced a boycott of November's legislative election on Friday after talks with the government over preparations for the...
Senegal orders Super Tucanos
Senegal's Air Force has ordered three A-29 Super Tucano light attack and training aircraft from Embraer, becoming the fourth African nation to...
Flintlock 2013 brings African forces together
Promoting regional co-operation and developing inter-operability among Trans-Sahara partner nations was the focus of this year's Exercise Flintlock in Mauritania.
Fourteen African, European...
Embraer delivers first Mauritanian Super Tucano
Embraer has delivered Mauritania's first Super Tucano trainer and light attack aircraft, as part of a deal announced earlier this year. The...
Mauritania says air strikes hit Al Qaeda in Mali
Mauritania said yesterday its air force hit al Qaeda targets in northern Mali, but Malian official sources reported the attacks had misfired...
Rural Mauritanians set to benefit from nearly $18 million in UN...
The United Nations agency helping the rural poor announced today it is awarding almost US$18 million in loans and grants to Mauritania...
Rioting erupts in Mauritanian capital over census
Demonstrators threw rocks and set fire to cars in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott yesterday during a protest against a government census which...
One dead in Mauritania protest
One man was killed when Mauritanian police fired live rounds and tear gas grenades at protesters who were opposing a government census...
Mauritanian army compensates abuse victims
Mauritania has began compensating people mistreated by the army, after a decision by President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to compensate black military...
Mauritanian Air Force trainer crashes; pilot killed
A Mauritanian Air Force trainer aircraft has crashed, killing the pilot whilst he was taking off on a training mission.
According to the...
Parliamentary Question: Dirco: Ministers trips
Mr SJ Masango (DA) to ask the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation:
1.With reference to her recent trips to (a) Sudan and...
Mauritania gains a new MPA
The Spanish government has donated an Airbus Military C212-200MP SAR (search and rescue) aircraft to Mauritania so it can tighten security on...
Mauritania adopts new anti-terrorism law
Mauritania has adopted a new anti-terrorism law, a move designed to give its security forces greater powers in the fight against al...
Mauritania cuts diplomatic ties with Israel
Mauritania has fully severed diplomatic ties with Israel, the northwest African country's foreign minister said, completing a process that began last year.
Mauritania,...
Al Qaeda releases Frenchman in prisoner swap
Al Qaeda's North African wing released French hostage Pierre Camatte, Mali's government said yesterday, in an apparent prisoner swap that has angered...
Mauritania recalls ambassador to Mali in al Qaeda row
Mauritania has temporarily recalled its ambassador to its northwest African neighbour Mali in a row about Mali releasing a Mauritanian Islamist from...
Al Qaeda claims Italians kidnappings in Africa: report
Al Qaeda's North African wing said it was responsible for the kidnapping this month of an Italian couple in Mauritania, Al Arabiya...
Mali seeks contact with captors of Spanish hostages
Mali believes three Spanish aid workers who went missing in Mauritania last month are being held on its territory by al Qaeda's...
Spanish and French hostages well: Al Qaeda web
Al Qaeda's wing in North Africa said three Spanish hostages and a Frenchman they are holding were in good health and being...
Al Qaeda group claims Africa kidnappings: Al Jazeera
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said today it was responsible for the kidnapping in November of three Spanish aid workers in...
Spanish aid workers not found-Mauritania
Mauritania has denied reports that it has located three Spanish aid workers abducted at the weekend, the Spanish government said.
"The Mauritanian authorities...
Al Qaeda may have kidnapped Spaniards: minister
Three Spanish aid workers who disappeared in Mauritania appear to have been kidnapped by a group linked to al Qaeda, Spain's Interior...
Three Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania
Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped in Mauritania yesterday, officials said of an attack that will heighten security fears in the West...