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Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and ...
Xi, speaking to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in a bilateral meeting in Chengdu, thanked Mauritania for "always standing firmly with China on issues involving China's core interests".
Mauritania, a largely desert country straddling Arab and Black Africa, has suffered six military coups since independence in 1960. Since taking office five years ago, Ghazouani has presided over a ...
Mauritania has the University of Nouakchott and other institutions of higher education, but the majority of highly educated Mauritanians have studied outside the country. Public expenditure on education was at 10.1% of 2000–2007 government expenditure. [93] Mauritania was ranked 126th out of 139 in the Global Innovation Index in 2024. [97]
The movement has also published a list of 28 grievances, including both political and economic problems. [1] The group's demands include; the removal of the military from Mauritanian politics, the elimination of institutional racism, better rights for women, reformation of the country's education system, an end to the endemic corruption within government, the strengthening of Mauritanian civil ...
Under Aziz's presidency, Mauritania saw notable increases in individual rights and freedoms that ranked among the best in the Arab world, despite the persistence of various economic and social issues, such as high levels of corruption, lack of adequate and appropriate employment opportunities (among young adults and highly educated individuals ...
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has promised to accelerate investments to spur an energy and mining boom as he takes on six challengers in the June 29 presidential election.
For 18 years after independence, Mauritania was a one-party state under Moktar Ould Daddah. This was followed by decades of military rule. The first fully democratic presidential election in Mauritania occurred on 11 March 2007, which marked a transfer from military to civilian rule following the military coup in 2005.