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Mauritania has secured a joint 12 million Euro grant from France and the European Union for sustainable development in the country’s rural areas, reports from Nouakchott said Friday.
A Mauritanian blogger, who authored an article deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh) in 2014 and sentenced to death has publicly repented.
Mauritania’s opposition candidates in Saturday’s presidential election have refused to accept the provisional results announced on Monday by the National and Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), threatening a demonstration.
The government of Mauritania, in a statement copied to APA on Friday, strongly condemned the attack on Abha Airport in Saudi Arabia, causing the injury of 26 civilians of different nationalities, including three women and two children.
Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed Ghazouani, one of the candidate for the June 22 presidential election in Mauritania has promised to recruit 6,000 teachers and build 3,500 classrooms across the country if elected into office.
Election campaign for Mauritania’s June 22 presidential election kicked off on Friday, June 7 at midnight, in accordance with the country’s election laws.
Nine illegal migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were arrested by the Mauritanian coast guards on Monday night off Nouadhibou, security sources revealed.
The Electoral Alliance of the Democratic Opposition in Mauritania (AEOD), which includes four of the six candidates in the presidential election on 22 June, has accused the current regime of “continuing to systematically tampering with electoral process.”
Mauritania is an example to follow in terms of stability, in a region dealing with major security challenges, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for Africa and the Sahel region (UNOWAS), Mohamed Ibn Chambas said on Wednesday in Nouakchott.
Mauritania has received $ 10.5 million in global funding from Kuwait for development projects, the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI) reported on Thursday.