A team of United Nation experts has revealed that the Malian army and “white soldiers” were involved in the deaths of 33 civilians, including 29 Mauritanians...
A United Nations human rights expert, Tomoya Obokata, has raised an alarm over the existence of slavery in Mauritania, calling on the authorities to take urgent...
A Malian delegation has arrived at the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, amid tensions over the disappearance of Mauritanian civilians in a border area. Malian envoys met Mauritanian...
The foreign ministry of Mauritanian on Tuesday accused Mali’s army of crimes against Mauritanians after protesters in the capital charged they had been killed “in cold...
Human rights activists are calling for a change to Mauritanian law so that women and girls who have been raped will not be prosecuted for sexual...
Voters in Mauritania over the weekend cast ballots in legislative, regional and local elections that would test President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz’s record before next year’s...
The institution of slavery, though abolished some 37 years ago in Mauritania, still has significant scars on the country’s landscape