NOUAKCHOTT — Mauritania and Spain have agreed to strengthen cooperation to combat people smuggling and promote legal migration, during a visit by Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose country is ...

NOUAKCHOTT — For the past decade, artist Seb Toussaint has travelled to some of the poorest parts of the world to paint brightly coloured frescoes on the walls of downtrodden neighbourhoods.Dressed in ...

Hama Sidi Othaman holds up a suspected meteorite in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, on Jan. 29. A self-styled meteorite broker, Sidi Othaman says he has been hunting for meteorites since 2011.

In a photograph from Nouakchott, Mauritania, hundreds of small fishing boats, called piroques, arrive in the port of this African nation, some afloat on the waves, some coming in with their catch.

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — A team of U.S. Army Civil Affairs Soldiers from the 478th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), 360th Civil Affairs ...