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Mauritania’s observatory for human rights on Friday denounced what it called the repression of students and called for an inquiry into their alleged torture by the police after two days of demonstrations.
The Chief of General Staff of the Mauritanian Armed Forces, Major General Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed Lemine Elemine Wednesday warned that a further deterioration of the security situation in the Sahel is worrisome.
Mauritania and Angola have launched a new chapter of cooperation and partnership with the signing in Nouakchott of a memorandum in fisheries, said an official source on Monday.
The law punishing terrorist financing and money laundering, adopted last February, will soon be applied in Mauritania, according to Justice Minister Haimoud Ramdan, after a decree was approved to this effect by the cabinet in Nouakchott on Thursday.
About two months ago, Mauritanians voted in retired General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ghazouani following a presidential election in which the opposition deployed heavily against a man of military tradition.
Some 582 deaths among mothers and newborns are recorded for every 100,000 live births in Mauritania, Health Minister Mohamed Nedhirou Hamed said in Nouakchott on Monday.
Mauritania’s economic growth in 2019 is expected to reach 6.3 percent, while the inflation rate will be kept below 3.5 percent, reports said on Friday.
A joint Mauritanian-Moroccan commission was set up on Thursday in Nouakchott, with the task of submitting proposals aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two countries, APA can report.
The Mauritanian government has condemned Saturday’s attacks on Saudi oil installations, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in Nouakchott said on Monday.
Mauritania’s president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has dismissed the Managing Director of the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM), Hassenna Ould Ely, APA learnt Friday from the company in Nouadhibou.