Leaders in several West African countries increased crackdowns on freedoms as they strengthened their hold on power in 2025.

DUBAI, 3rd February, 2026 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court, today met with Mokhtar Ould Diay, ...

Press Release - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have returned to south-eastern Mauritania to provide care to Malian refugees and the communities hosting them. Over the past two years in this ...

Delivered at Mauritania's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva. We welcome Mauritania's continued engagement with the UPR ...

Heads of State and Government from Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, alongside representatives from Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, have reaffirmed their commitment to deepen ...

Aura Energy plans to raise A$20 million ($13 million) to fund development of the Tiris uranium project in Mauritania. The company targets a final investment decision in the third quarter of 2026 for a ...

Aura (ASX:AEE) has received firm commitments for an A$20m placement at 20.5c per share to fund development of the Tiris uranium project.

Senegal and Mauritania set a December 25, 2026 contractual deadline for the delayed Rosso bridge project. The project missed its original mid-2024 delivery date after a planned 30-month construction ...

Three MNOs in Mauritania have been given two months to fully comply with existing SIM card identification rules in the ...

Until recently, Mauritania was a major fishmeal producer, home to the world’s second-highest number of processing plants, with the boom driven largely by lax regulations and the rapid issuance of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It’s looking like there’s not much appetite on Capitol Hill to allow funding to lapse past the Jan. 30 deadline. Shaheen said in a statement to Seacoastonline that Congress is making progress on a ...