Sources: BBC
The African Development Bank elects Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its next president in a three round election between five candidates. 2025-05-30
Fifteen people are killed and more than 195 others are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes near Nouakchott, Mauritania. 2024-07-24
At least 89 migrants are killed after their boat, which carried 170 migrants, capsized off the coast of Ndiago, Mauritania. 2024-07-1
Mexico’s immigration agency detains two buses carrying 102 migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The majority of the migrants came from the West African nations of Senegal and Guinea, as well as six from Djibouti, two from Congo and one from Mauritania. 2023-12-12
Mauritania's government reimposes a nighttime curfew in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases. 2020-12-13
The United States says it is "deeply concerned" about abuses by state security forces in the Sahel and threatens to cut aid to the G5 nations that form a coalition in the area – Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Chad – if those issues are not addressed. The U.S. also welcomes a summit to be held between the G5 nations and France and Spain. 2020-07-9
China's National Development and Reform Commission announces that single-use plastic bags will be banned in major cities by the end of the year, and then nationwide by 2022. 2020-01-20
Thousands of people attend demonstrations in Mauritania calling for the resignation of President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz. 2012-04-3
A dozen people are reported dead during clashes between Mauritanian troops and al-Qaeda militants in Mali's Sahara. 2010-09-18
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