Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. Only the passing of trains transporting minerals out...

Four months after the passing of a law criminalising slavery in Mauritania, anti-slavery activists hope newly-announced funding for the...

Mauritania, Senegal and the UN Refugee Agency recently signed an agreement that could turn the page on an ugly history in Mauritania, where 75,000...

Several towns and cities in Mauritania have been hit by protests against rising food prices, according to news reports. On 12 November, in...

Taking her 15 year old daughter to see a psychiatrist was the last resort for Dianaba Dia. For months beforehand she had used a local doctor who...

Since the 1970s, Mauritania’s capital city has been growing explosively and today a million people call the scruffy, ramshackle city’s collection of...

As Mauritania tries to recover from floods that totally submerged the southeastern town of Tintane in early August, more recent rains have caused...

The UN refugee agency is asking donors for US$7 million to help tens of thousands of Mauritanians return home nearly 20 years after ethnic fighting...

The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. ...

Thousands of Mauritanians have been forced from their homes by floods in the southeastern town of Tintane with water levels reaching two metres in...