An appeals court in Mauritania handed down a 15-year prison sentence and a $3 million fine to former President Mohamed Ould ...

Governments of Senegal and Mali are angry at how their nationals are being treated in the northwest African nation.

Security Report shows Mauritania has become the main launch point for irregular migrants heading to Spanish shores in 2024.

Sub-Saharan migrants are being arrested and deported from Mauritania, which members of civil society allege stems from an ...

USS Mount Whitney, which has been in service since 1971, is on the Navy’s shortlist to be decommissioned. The Navy has ...

- The Atlantic route, through which Sahel migrants depart from West African coasts. They board boats of varying sizes bound for the Canary Islands, Spain. That route is very deadly, with deaths and ...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is deeply alarmed by an escalating campaign of repression in ...

A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on “ships of the desert” may conjure images of the past — but Mauritania’s camelback cavalry ...

BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost at sea.

China’s efforts to buy influence in Africa through infrastructure and investment may not yield the returns Beijing hopes for, ...

Mauritania’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Mohamed Ould Khaled, outlined the country’s ambitious gas-to-power strategy ...