NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A senior Mauritanian official says at least 40 prisoners escaped in a jailbreak outside the capital. The official said the prisoners rushed the facility's main door early ...

“We are not here to distribute points, we are here to do our best and we will do everything possible to be at the right level.” Mauritania’s head coach Amir Abdou issued a warning to Algeria before ...

Khadidjatou Taher has lived for a decade in her ramshackle neighbourhood on the far outskirts of Mauritania's capital, but is yet to have running water in her home. The Barron's news department was ...

NOUAKCHOTT, April 9 (Reuters) - Mauritania's capital Nouakchott has started paying residents to collect their plastic garbage for recycling, a scheme intended to boost the local economy and help clean ...

Mohamed Fouad Barrada [fr] ruminates on the introduction of venture capital to Mauritania in the midst of this economic crisis. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples ...

It’s a development so encouraging one activist called it “unbelievable.” For only the second time in the country’s history, a judge in Mauritania this week convicted two people on charges of slavery, ...