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Mauritania

July 2024

  • Fishing boats, or pirogues, at Mauritanian port

    At least 89 migrants dead after boat capsizes off Mauritania, state news agency says

  • Mohamed Ould Ghazouani standing in a car waving to supporters.

    Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

June 2024

  • Supporters of Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, attend the final campaign rally in Nouakchott.

    Voters in Mauritania’s fledgling democracy head to the polls

    Mohamed Ould Ghazouani expected to be re-elected in region of Africa where coups have been commonplace

February 2024

  • A battered open boat being winched out of the water by a crane at a harbour, with a Red Cross tent visible on the quayside behind

    EU leaders unveil €210m Mauritania deal in bid to curb people-smuggling

    Plan includes energy and infrastructure projects with aim of strengthening stability in Sahel

June 2023

  • A traditional Mauritanian fishing boat.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How eDNA technology is changing the game for protecting ocean species

    New, noninvasive techniques turn samples of sea water into a treasure trove of genetic information about the species below

August 2022

  • Members of the M’bera camp Anti-Fire Brigade walk in formation practising firefighting techniques.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘There are snakes – but we attack the fires’: refugees fight flames in the Sahara

    Malian volunteers from a huge camp in Mauritania work tirelessly to put out blazes that threaten homes and land – and all without using water

July 2022

  • Malian refugees wait to be seen by a member of UNHCR at a registration centre in Mbera camp.

    ‘Children were hunted by armed men’: Malians seek safety in Mauritania

    Thousands have exchanged fighting between government forces, jihadists and mercenaries linked to Russia, for the meagre security of border camps

February 2022

  • A man with a horse and cart rides out of the shallows after collecting the catch from traditional fishing boats

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Fish oil and fishmeal industry harming food security in west Africa, warns UN

    Campaigners say the sector leads to overexploitation of stocks while pushing up prices and aggravating local unemployment

August 2021

  • A crowded boat arrives at Arguineguín, Gran Canaria.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I’d never seen a boat come in with so many bodies’: the mortal cost of the Atlantic migrant route

    Every year thousands of refugees from conflict, climate and instability in Africa board vessels in search of a new life in Europe but hundreds never arrive

March 2021

  • Mohamedou Ould Salahi on Nouakchott beach a few days after his release from Guantánamo Photograph: Laurence Topham/The Guardian

    Today in Focus
    Guantánamo’s highest-value detainee and the guard who befriended him

    Mohamedou Ould Salahi was once Guantánamo’s highest-value detainee, but during the 14 years he spent behind bars he was never charged with a crime. Salahi and his former guard Steve Wood reflect on their time at the prison

February 2021

  • still from the documentary

    The Guardian documentary
    My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship

  • The Guardian documentary
    My Brother’s Keeper: a former Guantánamo detainee, his guard and their unlikely friendship - video

May 2020

  • FILES-NIGERIA-SOCIAL-POVERTY-MIGRATION-ECONOMY<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 22, 2019, Hausa-Fulani pastoralists move while their cattle grazing near some farms in the outskirts of Sokoto, Sokoto State, north Nigeria. - A poverty gap and widening inequality between the largely-Muslim north and Christian-majority south, has caused a north-south migration in Nigeria. Climate change has hit agricultural yields hard and insecurity has rendered many areas unsafe to farm. The effect has been increased migration to cities such as Lagos, Nigeria’s capital Abuja and the southern oil-hub Port Harcourt, where jobs are easier to come by. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

    West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spreads

    Pandemic adds to jihadi and climate change threats to present ‘immense challenge’ for region

December 2019

  • People travelling from the Gambia, Nigeria and Senegal wait to board a migrant rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea in January 2017.

    Dozens killed as migrant boat sinks off Mauritania coast

    Vessel left the Gambia last week and had been carrying at least 150 people

March 2019

  • Mohamedou Ould Slahi

    Guantánamo Diary author 'blocked from travelling for medical treatment'

    Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was released from Guantánamo Bay in 2016 after 14 years in detention without charge, has been refused a passport to leave Mauritania

September 2018

  • Reporting rape can lead to indefinite imprisonment for women and girls in Mauritania

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Jail fear prevents women in Mauritania from filing rape complaints, study finds

    Campaigners demand change to law that means survivors of sexual violence can be imprisoned for adultery

August 2018

  • Biram Dah Abeid

    Modern-day slavery in focus
    Mauritanian presidential hopeful arrested amid fears of political foul play

    Campaigners voice concern over imprisonment of anti-slavery activist Biram Dah Abeid on eve of legislative elections

June 2018

  • The Haydel family in front of their tent next to their master Sheikh Ouled Mhammed’s house

    Modern-day slavery in focus
    The unspeakable truth about slavery in Mauritania

    Though outlawed, slavery persists in Mauritania. Photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month there photographing and talking to people touched by its blight

May 2018

  • Act of Recovery (Part I), Nouakchott, Mauritania, Archival color pigment print, 76.2 x 95.25cm, 2016 Act of Recovery I 2016 by Dawit L Petros for my best shot

    My best shot
    Dawit L Petros's best photograph: a shipwrecked Japanese trawler

    ‘We’re used to seeing overcrowded vessels from Africa washing up on the shores of Europe. But here was one that had travelled the other way’

March 2018

  • Adapting durum wheat varieties in West Africa Greta plot and great grains in Kaedi, Mauritania on the border with Senegal

    Wheat in heat: the 'crazy idea' that could combat food insecurity

    Durum wheat varieties can withstand 40C heat along the Senegal River basin, and could produce 600,000 tonnes of food
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