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Nouadhibou is consequently located merely a couple of kilometers from the border between Mauritania and Western Sahara. Its current mayor is Elghassem Ould Bellali, who was installed on 15 October 2018. [2] [3] Nouadhibou is a major hotspot for migrant smuggling, serving as a key departure point for those attempting to reach Europe. [4]
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On 27 June 1900 France and Spain signed a treaty which created a border between Rio de Oro and French West Africa starting at Ras Nouadhibou and terminating at the junction of the 12th meridian west and the 26th parallel north (i.e. the bulk of the modern Mauritania–Western Sahara border).
The Ras Nouadhibou (formerly known as Cap Blanc) peninsula, which forms Dakhlet Nouadhibou (formerly Lévrier Bay) to the east, is 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 13 km wide. The peninsula is administratively divided between Western Sahara and Mauritania, with the Mauritanian port and railhead of Nouadhibou located on the eastern shore.
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The headland forms the western limit of Dakhlet Nouadhibou Bay. It is divided between Mauritania and Western Sahara. On the western side lies the ghost town of La Güera; on the eastern side, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the border, lies Mauritania's Nouadhibou (formerly Port Etienne). Although it is not the westernmost point of Africa, due ...
A small Ohio town is the latest victim of the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policy after 3,000 migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania moved in in the past year — lured ...
The iron ore arrives at the ore terminal of Point Central (located 10 kilometers south of Nouadhibou) by a railway which runs 650 km from the mines to the port. The Bay of Nouadhibou is the final resting place of over 300 ships and one of the world's largest ship graveyards. [4] [5] Ships graveyard, Nouadhibou, Mauritania