New legislation could limit deportation for some people coming to the U.S. to escape slavery and human rights violations. The TPS for Mauritania Act proposed by a bipartisan coalition of Ohio's ...

Mauritania’s vast land area consists of significant desert regions, making it sparsely populated. The country has an estimated population of more than 4.6 million.

This morning, in the suburbs of Nouakchott, the waiting room of the Teyarett vaccination center is buzzing with people. A steady stream of women and men from all walks of life are coming to get ...

Three of the continent’s most active countries in international diplomacy – Mauritania (population less than 5 million), Togo (57,000 km²) and Djibouti (a million citizens squeezed into 23,000 km²) – ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning after a "deadly biological weapon" virus has killed several people ...

The world’s three most infamous terrorist organizations are working together at Al-Qaeda-run training camps in the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, where dozens of recruits from the U.S., Canada and ...

Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon ...

Kazakhstan is 15th on our list of the least densely populated countries in the world. The country has an area roughly equal to western Europe. Its interior regions particularly have low population ...