Former army chief and incumbent president Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani won just over 56% of the vote
Mauritania’s military junta on Sunday freed the country’s ousted President, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, from house arrest.
Police broke up an anti-government march by beating protesters with clubs and launching tear gas into the crowd in Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott.
Most of Mauritania’s political parties on Monday joined forces to back this month’s military coup, as a rally supporting the coup drew thousands.
Deputies in Mauritania’s National Assembly have called for special moves that could open the way for a trial of the ousted president.
Mauritania’s coup leaders have announced they will appoint a government to run the country until new elections.
The army general who successfully toppled Mauritania’s government staged a show of force on Thursday.
Mauritanian security forces recaptured five suspected al-Qaeda militants on Wednesday, including a fugitive accused of killing four French tourists, officials said. The December…
Police and troops in Mauritania, armed with tear gas and automatic weapons, on Tuesday stormed a building in Nouakchott hunting for Islamic extremists but their quarry managed to…
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott early on Friday, police said. The attackers exchanged fire with guards at the…
Gunmen shot dead four members of a French family on Monday, including at least two children, and badly wounded the father in south-west Mauritania, the French embassy in…
Mauritanian President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi ordered villages to stockpile food to help cushion the effect of rising inflation, his economic adviser said on Thursday. About…
The government in Mauritania on Friday defended its handling of food riots this week, claiming that violent protests in opposition strongholds that left one dead were…
At least 47 migrants died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands after drifting for more than two weeks off the west coast of Africa in two boats, police sources in Mauritania…
A hearing in the trial of a Mauritanian editor of independent daily El Bedil Athalith, charged with slandering the first lady, was on Monday postponed indefinitely. The Arabic…
Authorities seized cocaine worth more than -million on Monday in Mauritania’s capital — the country’s largest haul ever, officials said. Security agents arrested five people —…
She struggles under her own weight, lumbering up the stairs, her thighs shaking with each step. Once she reaches the top, it will take several minutes for 50-year-old Mey Mint to…
Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi won Mauritania’s historic presidential election with 52,85% of the vote, the interior minister said on Monday. Ould Abdallahi, who was backed by…
Mauritanians voted on Sunday in a presidential run-off between a former technocrat and a veteran opposition leader, the last stage of returning civilian rule to the Islamic state…
Mauritanians vote on Sunday to choose a civilian president, completing a handover of power by a military junta that took control of the Islamic state on the western edge of the…
