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

One evening in December 2011, five armed men arrived in a vehicle, fired at the Mauritanian gendarmerie post at Adel Begrou, ...

An appeals court sentenced Mauritania's former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for abuse ...

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

Mauritania: African Development Bank supports rural climate resilience with new sustainable water access project - The Maravi ...

The trial, seen as a rare case of accountability for an African leader, also sentenced his son-in-law to two years for ...

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

Mauritania’s ex-president Abdel Aziz gets 15 years sentence for corruption after appeals court toughens earlier five-year ...

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

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption ...