On the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), Senegalese President Bassirou ...

Algerian media La Patrie, close to the Algerian regime, criticized Mauritania over the planned opening of a new international ...

In a densely populated refugee setting with limited health infrastructure, even a handful of cases could quickly spiral into ...

Tanzania took a huge step toward the knockout phase of the 2024 CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) with a narrow 1-0 ...

Sand surrounds a hut in Chinguetti, Mauritania, Feb. 4, 2025. Community leader Melainine Med El Wely feels agonized over the stakes for residents and the history contained within Chinguetti's walls.

Mauritania’s fertility rates have dropped so their low human density will continue. Two of its neighbors, Senegal and Morocco, are doing better than Mauritania, which could help pull it up.

Mauritania edged a bruising, high-stakes CHAN Group B tie 1-0 against 10-man Burkina Faso in Dar es Salaam, Alassane Diop's first-half penalty enough to settle a contest shaped by a VAR red card and ...

Central African Republic will face Mauritania Saturday at 10 a.m. ET. Both look for their first win, which would increase ...

Mauritania grants bail to ailing ex-president amid graft probe By Reuters January 8, 202212:07 AM PSTUpdated January 8, 2022 ...

When Seif Kousmate, a photographer based in Morocco, set out to capture the everyday lives of the country's Haratin people, Mauritanian authorities arrested, jailed and interrogated him.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Mister X, hip hop impresario of Nouakchott, tells the history of slavery in rap. In a four-act “slam,” as it's known here — basically an episodic mix of spoken ...

A swift and coordinated response by Mauritania's Ministry of Health, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and humanitarian partners, has successfully contained a diphtheria outbreak at the ...