Abdallahi Ould Tfagha Moctar and Mohamed Lemine Ould Moustapha, reporters of Sahara Media, a Nouakchott-based independent newswire service were on...

In response to the Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip in December 2008 and the early part of 2009, the African country of Mauritania has cut...

The Supreme Court in Mauritania on February 3, 2009 granted bail to Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, a former legislator, after he has spent over three...

Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher who is being detained for criticizing the country’s military regime was on October 26, 2008...

Isselmou Ould Abdelkader, an independent researcher and former minister, was arrested on October 21, 2008 in Nouakchott, by members of the combined...

Bechir Ould Babana, the Editor In Chief of the Electronic newspaper Saharamedia, was on October 15, 2008; assaulted in Nouakchott by the Anti-Riot...

Following a meeting between Mauritania’s junta leaders and the European Union in Paris, EU officials have given the military officials one month to...

Mohamed Ould Moustapha, a cameraman with the local Mauritanian office of the Qatari television network, Al Jazeera, was assaulted on October 8, 2008...

Alleged terrorist attacks on 14 September in Tourine in the northeast killed 11 soldiers and their civilian guide, confirmed Mauritania’s...

In a country that imports about 70 percent of its food, and where the UN estimates more than one million suffer from chronic malnutrition, some...