Mauritania News

Mauritania — A police official says three Spanish aid workers have been kidnapped in the desert nation of Mauritania. The official says the three were traveling in a convoy delivering humanitarian aid when they were attacked by armed men. The...

For 23 years its doctors have believed in the coma. But, tells the patient belgian, it was in fact awake, but unable to communicate because imprisoned in a body totally paralyzed. Nurses move a sick bedridden in a hospital in...

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Western Sahara activist on hunger strike at Lanzarote airport Aminatou Haidar, campaigner for indigenous Sahrawi rights, expelled over refusal to accept Moroccan nationality Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar in Arrecife airport on Lanzarote. AFP/Getty Images Western Sahara's most prominent...

At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout...

Mauritania despite a legal crackdown, a UN investigator said yesterday. A 2007 law criminalising slavery in the west African desert state is not being properly enforced and victims are not encouraged to come forward, UN rapporteur Gulnara Shahinian told a...