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Egypt and Mauritania invoke United Nations Resolution 377 for the UN General Assembly to discuss an immediate humanitarian ceasefire at an emergency session in New York City, in response to the United States vetoing a UN resolution with a similar objective.
2023-12-11

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani tests positive for COVID-19 and is displaying mild symptoms.
2022-01-4

A boat capsizes off the coast of Mauritania with 47 people on board presumed dead. The Mauritanian Coast Guard rescues several people from the sea. The boat had departed from Western Sahara and was travelling to the Canary Islands, Spain.
2021-08-17

Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians are abducted at gunpoint from a construction site in Kwala, Mali.
2021-07-17

Mauritania begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 after receiving 500,000 doses of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine from China.
2021-03-26

The University of Cambridge accepts the resignation of historian David Starkey and strips him of his honorary fellowship, following controversy over his remarks about slavery on a podcast.
2020-07-3

The European Union warns Thailand that the country needs to quickly address the human rights and slavery issues in its seafood industry if it wants to avoid an EU import ban.
2015-12-18

Thousands of people attend demonstrations in Mauritania calling for the resignation of President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz.
2012-04-3

The army in Mauritania destroy a car packed with explosives outside the capital Nouakchott, killing three people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
2011-02-2

Mauritania extradites a man to Mali convicted for kidnapping three Spanish aid workers believed to be held by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
2010-08-18