15-Feb-2019 to 15:48

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) By Mohamed Moctar — The Mauritanian Minister of Rural Development, Lemina Mint Elghotob has announced that her office plans to build a pumping station on the Senegal River for an irrigation scheme that would cover 65,000 hectares of cultivable land.

12-Feb-2019 to 21:40

APA-Rabat (Morocco) — Members of the EU Parliament have voted in favour of a landmark new fisheries agreement and a prtotocol with Morocco to facilitate sustainable fishing by European vessels that would stick to the allowable catch surplus as enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

06-Feb-2019 to 15:51

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) By Mohamed Moctar — The Al Aasriya University of Nouakchott has received a financial grant of €400,000 from France for a pilot project to support the structuring of research within the institution.

05-Feb-2019 to 21:43

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) By Mohamed Moctar — Seven Mauritanian gold diggers were killed last night in a road accident in the north of the country, security and medical sources in Zouerate, more than 600 kilometers north of Nouakchott confirmed.

05-Feb-2019 to 20:06

APA-Tripoli (Libya) — The United Nations and its aid partners, together with the interim government of Libya, launched on Tuesday a humanitarian response plan (HRP), appealing for $202 million to bring urgent life-saving assistance to some 550,000 women, children and men affected by the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

05-Feb-2019 to 17:10

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) By Mohamed Moctar — Private schools in Mauritania on Tuesday demanded a “consensual and applicable” formula that grants them facilities to pay their taxes, required by the taxman under penalty of closure.

04-Feb-2019 to 16:57

APA-Cairo (Egypt) — A court in Egypt has applied for the death penalty to be introduced against eight people charged with the attempted assassination of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi almost five years ago.