Mauritania News

Bonko Diawara holds her 17-month-old daughter, Diarra Yattibere, as she recovers from malnutrition, at a nutrition center at Selibaby's hospital, in the Guidimakha region, Mauritania, June 2012.

This image released on December 25, 2012 by Sahara Media, shows one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb , Abdelhamid Abu Zeid in an undisclosed place.

A Mauritanian was killed in an accident involving a member of the mission personnel of the U.S. Embassy, officials said Saturday.

As Mali's crisis deepens, the implications for its neighbors darken. North Africa has not been immune to the vectors of insecurity emanating from northern Mali, where global, ethnic, governmental, and environmental crises have produced disorder outstripping any typical Tuareg rebellion or common West African coup.

A Mauritanian was killed in an accident involving a member of the mission personnel of the U.S. Embassy, officials said Saturday.

A violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the East Coast on Sunday.

U.S. authorities have transferred Younis al-Mauritani, a suspected senior member of al Qaeda previously held in Afghanistan, to Mauritania, officials in the West African nation said on Saturday.

Alan John Miller, an Australian cult leader, is claiming to be Jesus by saying he has memories of the crucifixion.

A prisoner support group says that three Mauritanians - including two detainees from Guantanamo - were returned to their country late Friday night.

Emergency officials are preparing to survey tornado damage again this morning following the second major fatal storm to strike the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in several days.

Protesters holding tear gas used by the authorities against them. Photo by activist Abdel Fetah Ould Habib on his Facebook page.

From Minggu Simon Lhasa LONDON, May 30 -- Weststar Aviation Services Sdn Bhd has sealed a four-year contract worth an estimated RM500 million to provide aviation services in Mauritania to Tullow Mauritania Ltd.

AQIM continues to demonstrate its intent and ability to conduct attacks against foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens.

Mauritania is an independent republic which lies mainly in the Sahara Desert belt on the on the bulge of Africa and forms part of the West African Region.

WAM DUSHANBE, 22 May, 2013 - The 290th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank has approved US$ 461.7 million to fund various development projects in member countries, as well as several educational projects for Muslim communities in non-member countries.

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Mauritania on Wednesday to denounce violence against women and demand tighter security amid a spike in assaults and rape cases in the capital Nouakchott.

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.

The man who acted as the spokesman for one of the three al-Qaida-linked groups occupying northern Mali turned himself in over the weekend to Mauritanian authorities on the border, an intelligence official briefed on the matter confirmed on Monday.