Mauritania prime minister Saghir Weld Mubarak yesterday accused the opposition of "provoking for a civil war." He also accused each of Libya and Burkina Faso of their attempt to make what he called "conspiracies" against the country....
In a symbolic celebration attended by the Mauritania defense minister and foreign ambassadors on Sunday, the Mauritanian army blasted some 5,000 mines considered to be the last stored amounts of anti personnel mines....
The police in Mauritania continued acts of detentions which targeted almost 18 members of the Islamic trend, in addition to several unidentified persons, according to sources close to the Islamists....
Sources said on Monday in Mali capital Bamako that the place of the two Qataris kidnapped on Saturday by an "armed gang" is on the border between Mali and Mauritania.
The chairman of the military council for the ruling Justice And Democracy Council in Mauritania Col. Ala Weld Muhammad Faal headed for Saudi Arabia in order to take part in the special summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC due on Wednesday and Thursday.
Australian oil companies lead multi national consortium for oil and gas production in Mauritania expected this country to get billions of US dollars during the few coming years.
Morocco and Mauritania signed, in Nouakchott Thursday, two accords to develop cooperation in education and illiteracy eradication for the three coming years.
