The U.S. Department of State has issued travel advisories for two African destinations, warning people of crime and terrorist ...

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.

Wang Dongxia, a nurse with the 35th Chinese medical team to Mauritania, applies eye drops to a patient at the National Hospital in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on July 14, 2025. Since 1968, China has sent ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with ...

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 ...