From the Mauritanian coast, Ahmed, a Senegalese man, looks towards Europe, the place he dreams of being but fears he wil …

Boubacar Ould Messaoud, a rights activist who fought incessantly to wipe out slavery in his native Mauritania, died on T …

Woumpou, Mauritania ndash; On a humid October afternoon in Woumpou, Kadia stands where her front yard used to be …

Mauritania’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s second appeal against his conv …

Mauritania’s role as a key transit hub for African migrants seeking passage to Europe has come into sharp focus, followi …

The election of Sidi Ould Tah as president of the African Development Bank marks a new chapter for the institution amid …

Mauritania’s former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday heading the race to become Africa’s next super banke …

An appeals court sentenced Mauritania’s former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for …

One evening in December 2011, five armed men arrived in a vehicle, fired at the Mauritanian gendarmerie post at Adel Beg …

A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on ships of the desert may conjure images of the past but Mauritania’s camelba …

Ismaila Bangoura has bad dreams about the night when, he says, Mauritanian police burst into the place in Nouakchott he …

The wall was tagged with graffiti above 22-year-old Sidi’s bed in the lone psychiatric hospital in Mauritania, a country …