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United States Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs, David Hill, has announced in Nouakchott that the US military exercise Flintlock will take place next week in Mauritania.
The 5th edition of the Nouakchott Festival for Arab Poetry kicked off Tuesday at the initiative of the House of Arab Poetry, with the assistance of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
The French special envoy for the Sahel, Christophe Bigot said in Nouakchott on Tuesday that he had held talks with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani about security and development in the region.
The United Arab Emirates, on Monday, pledged to build a Mauritanian arts institute in Nouakchott, the first of its kind in the country.
Leading figures from the Muslim world, led by Sheikh Abdullah Ibn Bayyah, recently met in Nouakchott to draft a Declaration on Combating Religious Extremism.
Sheikh Abdallah Ibn Bayyah, often opposed to the famous Egyptian theologian Youssef al-Qaradawi is a key figure in the fight against religious extremism in the Muslim world.
The vice-Speaker of the Mauritanian National Assembly, Hamadi Ould Meimou, has announced the setting up of a parliamentary commission to look into the management of the country’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (2009 – 2019).
Mauritania will soon implement the free trade agreement with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouan has said.
The new government in Mauritania has made the regulation of the sale of medicines its main priority.
Mauritanian police have arrested blogger Mohamed Ali Abdel Aziz on suspicion of making audio-visual recordings that have gone viral on social media in recent days, security sources in Nouakchott have told Reporters Without Borders.