Sources: BBC
At least 89 people are killed and dozens are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Mauritania. 2024-07-5
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
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani appoints public administrator Mohamed Ould Bilal as Prime Minister after the government of previous Prime Minister Ismail Ould Bedde Ould Cheikh Sidiya resigned hours earlier. 2020-08-6
American undersea explorer Victor Vescovo sets a new world record for the deepest ever sea dive at 10,972 m in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. Several unusual things are discovered at the bottom, including four new species of prawn-like crustaceans, a new species of snailfish, strange brightly coloured rocky outcrops and a plastic bag. 2019-05-13
2016 Nampala attack: At least 12 soldiers are killed and 27 others injured after unidentified militants briefly overrun a government base in central Mali, near the border with Mauritania. The attackers also burn and loot the adjacent village of Nampala. 2016-07-19
Mauritania's state information agency announces that Abdullah Senussi, Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, has been arrested at the airport in Nouakchott upon arrival from Morocco. 2012-03-17
A woman is sentenced to six months imprisonment in Mauritania for keeping two children in slave-like conditions. 2011-01-17
A dozen people are reported dead during clashes between Mauritanian troops and al-Qaeda militants in Mali's Sahara. 2010-09-18
A military spokesperson claims that a suicide bomber was shot and killed when he tried to drive a truckload of explosives into a Mauritanian army barracks in Néma near the border with Mali. 2010-08-25