APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Organisation for the Development of Senegal River Valley (OMVS) has donated 200,000 treated mosquito nets to help Mauritania fight malaria, APA reports here on Wednesday.

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) A Spanish doctor couple has narrowly escaped death in the floods following the heavy rains in Chinguetti (over 500 km north of Nouakchott), a reliable source told APA on Saturday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakcott (Mauritania) The Mauritanian office of drug and psychotropic substances control has laid hands on a group of drug dealers with 41 kg of marijuana, APA learns here on Friday in Nouakchott from a reliable source. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA – Nouakchott (Mauritania) The United Nations Secretary General’s special representative in West Africa, Said Djinit, has expressed his satisfaction with the institutional progress achieved by Mauritania as well as in social and economic development. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed responsibility for the attacks launched on Wednesday against a military barracks in Mauritania, that left on dead and three soldiers injured, the Mauritanian information site Saharamedia reports here on Monday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Commander of the Mauritanian fifth military region, Colonel Sidina Ould Sidi Heiba, said that the bomb-attack on Wednesday against the Nema Barracks (1,200 kilometres east of Nouakchott) was perpetrated by the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritania and Mali have signed an agreement to build a partnership through which Mali could get supplies of refined hydrocarbons from Nouakchott, in accordance with the security standards in hydrocarbons transport, a reliable source told APA on Wednesday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania, on Tuesday in Nouakchott invited the military to get involved in the country’s infrastructure construction works, reliable sources told APA in Nouakchott. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritanian security forces on Wednesday foiled a bomb attack on some barracks in the town of Nema, located 1,200 km east of thee Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott ; reliable sources have told APA here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritania and The Gambia have agreed that Nouakchott will export cattle and meat to Banjul, official sources in the Mauritanian capital told APA. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Some 200,000 shrubs will be planted on Saturday on a 2,000-hectare area around the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, to protect the city from desertification, reliable sources told APA on Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Mauritania has withdrawn from the qualifiers for the 2012 African Cup of Nations (CAN) to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, said the chairman of the Mauritanian Football Association, Mohamed Salem Ould Boukhreiss. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritania has received from Libya a US$50-million grant for two health and education projects, reliable sources told APA here on Sunday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Qatar National Bank (QNB) has been allowed by the Central Bank of Mauritania to start business in Nouakchott, reliable sources told APA in the Mauritanian capital. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Court of the Mauritanian capital on Wednesday sentenced to 12 years imprisonment Omar Ould Sid’ahmed Ould Hamme alias Omar Sahraoui, prime suspect in the kidnapping of three Spanish humanitarian workers in Mauritania on the main Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road on 29 November 2009. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The public prosecutor in the Mauritanian capital has demanded a sentence of penal servitude for life against Omar Ould Sid’ahmed Ould Hamme alias Omar Sahraoui, the prime suspect in the kidnapping of three Spanish humanitarian workers in Mauritania on the main Nouadhibou-Nouakchott road on 29 November 2009. Delete from Cart- Click here for subscribtion

APA – Nouakchott (Mauritania) A Mauritanian national was arrested in Rosso-Mauritania upon her arrival from Senegal as she was accused of smuggling two kilogrammes of marijuana around her abdomen and chest ; reliable sources told APA here on Sunday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Mauritanian government has formally apologized to the opposition leader Messoud Ould Boulheir, who is also the National Assembly Speaker following the “discourteous attitude” towards his person by the country’s embassies in Senegal and Syria. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) Kuwait donated about CFA 20 billion for the building of an academic complex which will be located in Nouakchott, the capital, APA learns here on Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The coordination of the democratic opposition in Mauritania (COD) has "strongly condemned the offensive and discriminatory behavior" by some Mauritanian diplomatic missions abroad towards the Speaker of the Mauritanian National Assembly, Messoud Ould Boulkheir. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritania has joined the Regional Network of Marine Protected Areas in West Africa (RAMPAO), a reliable source told APA here Saturday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Rabat (Morocco) Morocco and Mauritania have seized the opportunity of the ongoing visit to Morocco of Mauritania’s Army Chief, General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed to discuss bilateral military cooperation, official sources told APA here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) The Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) has called for more resources for the preservation of marine biodiversity at the fifth forum of the regional forum for coastal and marine conservation programme for West Africa (PRCM) being held in Nouakchott from 28 to 30 June. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Moscow (Russia) The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sergei Lavrov, has expressed satisfaction at the fact that Mauritania overcame its domestic political crisis and further commended the Russian representatives who participated in the international contact group which helped Mauritania out of its political situation, APA learns here on Monday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Dozens of motorists on Saturday evening paraded in the streets of the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott to celebrate the victory of Ghana’s Black Stars over the United States in their second round match of the Fifa World Cup in South Africa, APA learns here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The firm Tasiast Mauritania Ltd, a subsidiary of the Canadian company Red Back Mining, which runs gold mines in Mauritania, intends to launch in 2010, the most important gold research programme in Africa, Mauritania’s Industry and Mining Minister has announced here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Moscow (Russia) An official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Andrey Nesterenko, has said in an interview Thursday that Russia and Mauritania are ready to strengthen their bilateral cooperation, and also discuss a number of international questions. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is willing to strengthen cooperation with Mauritania in its fight against terrorism and illicit trafficking, NATO Secretary General, Claudio Bisogniero told reporters at the end of a meeting with Mauritanian leader, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Rome (Italy) Mauritania has shown that curbing advancing sand dunes is possible, concluded the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a sand containment handbook published Thursday to mark the World Day to Combat Desertification. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Nouakchott (Mauritania) Mauritanian football fans can watch all 64 World Cup matches on the national television screens, a statement announced. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion