Mauritania

Donors pledged 2.1 billion dollars in assistance for Mauritania at a development conference in...

West Africa should experience strong growth in 2008 and a generally stable political environment...

Parliament yesterday passed a law criminalising slavery, a key political issue following...

New evidence is emerging of the range and changing nature of trans-Saharan crime. It is apparent...

West Africa is among the most populous regions of the Islamic world. While Islam has played a...

A new civilian government was formed on April 28. The appointment of a new government marks the...

President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was sworn in yesterday as Mauritania's first democratically...

Processes of post-conflict justice have become important mechanisms for conflict resolution and...