A chronology of key events: 3rd-7th centuries AD - Berber and Arab migrants displace the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania.

BEIJING: China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd , a leading State-owned enterprise on infrastructure construction of China, signed a 1.36-billion-yuan contract with Drainage Board of Department of Energy, Mauritania, said CGGC Tuesday.

The parliamentary Workshop "Female Genital Mutilation and the Law", organised jointly by No Peace Without Justice and the Mauritanian Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children , together with the Mauritanian Network of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, concluded yesterday with the adoption of a ...

Islamic religious leaders in Mauritania are again in the spotlight for their role in eliminating female circumcision.

Fourteen candidates will compete for the Miss Luanda 201 0 beauty pageant, to be held during a gala at the Tropical Cinema in Luanda on 2 9 January.

Mauritanian police arrested a Moroccan national suspected of having taken part in the abduction of three Spanish aid workers who were kidnapped on Nov.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei stated here on Tuesday that the Zionist regime poses a major threat to the Muslim world.

A recent fatwa banning female genital mutilation/cutting in Mauritania will help reduce the practice only if religious leaders take the message to the people, scholars and anti-FGM/C activists say.

TEHRAN: Iranian media reported on Wednesday that two German diplomats were detained last month due to involvement in anti-government protests, but Berlin said it was unaware any of its staff in Iran had been arrested.

The three Spanish aid workers kidnapped nearly two months ago in Mauritania are in good health, says a leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that claimed responsibility for the abduction.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and his Mauritanian counterpart Mohammad Ould Abdel Aziz have called for the expansion of cooperation between the two countries.

There's a really new trend that has started to emerge since last year, one of peaceful dialogue with al-Qaeda. Mauritania is a tiny nation on the margins of the modern world.

Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation in West Africa got a boost this week as news emerged that a group of Muslim clerics and scholars in Mauritania had declared a fatwa, or religious decree, against the practice.

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday met with visiting Sang Yuanming, director general of China Overseas Engineering Group Company.

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will leave on Friday for visits to Turkey and Iran, according to the government.

European funding provided to increase iron ore output in African nation. Societe Nationale Industrielle et Miniere , based in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, has announced plans to set up a 4 million-tons-per-year concentrated iron ore plant in the African nation's Al-Zouerate region.

Thirty four Islamic scholars in Mauritania have signed a fatwa, or religious opinion, banning the practice of female genital mutilation.

Grasslands have vast untapped potential to mitigate clim ate change by absorbing and storing Carbon Dioxide , according to a new report by the Food and Agriculture Orga nisation .

Mauritania has recognized 'the independence of Kosovo', the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Pristina announced on Wednesday.

Ghana has increased the producer price of cocoa by 8.6 per cent, jumping up from 2,208 Ghana cedis to 2,400 Ghana cedis per tonne .