Full Coverage: Mauritania

19.03.2007 Mauritanians went to the polls last week to elect a civilian president and end 29 years of military rule. A run-off between the top two candidates is scheduled for March 25.

15.12.2005 Earlier this year a debt cancellation package was agreed for 18 of the world's most impoverished countries, but now the IMF has announced a final test must be passed by six of them to qualify for the January write-off. Africa Action wants you to join them this week in telling the IMF that more delays cost more lives!

10.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 10 (OneWorld) - Famine in Niger is the most visible sign of a West African food crisis that could have been averted had international donors not been so stingy with some of the world's poorest countries, a leading aid group has said.

04.08.2005 The government of the West African desert nation of Mauritania appears to have been toppled by an army coup Wednesday, while the president, who himself seized power in a 1984 coup, was out of the country. A mood of joy was reported in the streets of the capital, while the African Union condemned the developments.

04.08.2005 Although the World Food Programme has received 57% of emergency food aid needed for Niger, millions more in the neighboring countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania are threatened by a major food crisis as well, because rich countries have not responded to months of appeals for emergency funds, warned Oxfam on Wednesday.

12.06.2005 The Sahel region of West Africa provides further evidence of post-tsunami donor fatigue. UN appeals for humanitarian relief for regions devastated by locusts and drought are falling on deaf ears.

23.09.2004 In the deep south of Mauritania, swarms of locusts appear on the horizon like dark menacing sand storms and then arrive to swirl around the countryside like blizzards of thick, yellow snowflakes.

03.09.2004 As swarms of locusts sweep across the West African states of Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, and Chad, a U.S.-based group is looking for international aid to boost its locust control efforts with local organizations in the region.

06.05.2004 Local fishermen on the coast of Mauritania handed over their fishing nets to be destroyed as part of a landmark agreement to halt the fishing of sharks and rays in Banc d’Arguin, Africa’s largest marine park.

31.01.2003 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an appeal for US $28 million to provide emergency relief food to feed thousands of people threatened by starvation in five Western Sahel countries.

24.12.2002 International responses to food shortages in Mauritania have been criticised as "inadequate and slow" by a leading development charity appealing for aid to help the 750,000 people already affected by hunger.

28.11.2002 Representatives of the international community agreed in Brussels to provide over US $400 million to Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Mauritania, Nicaragua and Niger for Education For All.

08.11.2002 The Mauritanian government has not taken practical steps to end slavery, although the practice was legally abolished 20 years ago, a new report said yesterday.

25.09.2002 At least 60,000 Mauritanians face serious food shortages, mainly because of extremely poor rains, the United Nations said today.

11.09.2002 Continued use of child labour and forced labour in Mauritania was criticised in a report published by an international workers' organisation yesterday ahead of a World Trade Organization review of the country's trade policies that begins today.

23.08.2002 World Links commissioned a gender assessment study in 2001 aimed at determining if and how the program is impacting girls and boys differently. The research was conducted by Dr. Coumba Mar Gadio and focused on male and female students in four African countries: Senegal, Mauritania, Uganda and Ghana.

23.08.2002 World Links commissioned a gender assessment study in 2001 aimed at determining if and how the program is impacting girls and boys differently. The research was conducted by Dr. Coumba Mar Gadio and focused on male and female students in four African countries: Senegal, Mauritania, Uganda and Ghana.

12.07.2002 The Paris Club creditor countries recommended on a reduction of Mauritania's stock of debt estimated at US $320 million as at 1 July, to $16 million. Mauritania, the club said, had a strong commitment to economic and structural reforms and to the burden of its external indebtedness.

21.06.2002 Mauritania is to benefit from debt relief of US $1.1 billion having reached completion point under the enhanced framework of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. An agreement reached by the World Bank's International Development Association and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), makes Mauritania the sixth country to reach this point, joining Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda.

05.06.2002 Two months after the World Food Programme launched a US $7.5 million food appeal for victims of drought and floods in Mauritania, the implementation of the relief operation is being delayed by lack of funding. Since 3 April, when the appeal was launched, donations have been received only from Finland, which has given US $200 000 and Italy, US $9 000 although some new pledges have been made.