(MENAFN) More than 140 people are feared dead following the sinking of a migrant vessel headed for Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of Mauritania on Friday, according to Spanish media outlets. Mauritanian authorities informed a Spanish news...
(MENAFN) More than 140 individuals are feared to have perished on Friday when a migrant vessel headed for Spain’s Canary Islands sank off the coast of Mauritania, as reported by Spanish media. Authorities in Mauritania informed a Spanish news...
(MENAFN) Arab dignitaries began arriving in Qatar on Sunday to participate in an urgent Arab-Islamic summit following an Israeli assault on Doha. According to a Qatari state news agency, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani landed at...
(MENAFN) Reports indicate that Arab leaders began arriving in Qatar on Sunday to participate in an urgent Arab-Islamic summit following an Israeli attack on Doha. Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould El-Ghazaouani landed at Hamad International...
MILAN, ITALY, September 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- • Starting tomorrow, Gastech 2025 will convene more than 50,000 attendees over four days, uniting government ministers, industry leaders, and innovators from 150 different countries around...
(MENAFN) More than 140 people are feared dead after a migrant vessel en route to Spain’s Canary Islands sank off the coast of Mauritania on Friday, according to reports. Mauritanian authorities told Spanish news outlets that at least 70 bodies...
(MENAFN) The African Union’s rights body expressed concern on Monday regarding agreements between the United States and African nations, including Rwanda and Uganda, that facilitate the transfer of deportees to those countries, according to...
(MENAFN) The African Union's (AU) human rights body raised alarm on Monday regarding recent agreements between Rwanda, Uganda, and the United States that would facilitate the transfer of deportees to these African nations. In a statement, the...
(MENAFN) Pope Leo XIV has called once again for an urgent ceasefire in Ukraine, appealing to global leaders to prioritize dialogue and peace as Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities intensify, according to reports. During the Sunday Angelus in Rome,...
Mali’s transitional military government is grappling with growing public anger over a widening blockade imposed by Islamist militants on strategic highways linking the country to Senegal and Mauritania a move that analysts warn could choke the...
A dozen Mauritanian companies, backed by the National Society for Rural Development (SONADER), are preparing to exhibit at the Fruit Attraction trade show in the country's now permanent pavilion. While the event provides an important opportunity...
Collins NabiswaBBC Monitoring, Abdou Aziz DiédhiouBBC Afrique, Natasha Booty and Chris EwokorBBC Africa ShareSave Until recently Islamists in Mali had been more active in the north and centre Mali's military government has sought to calm anger...
Collins NabiswaBBC Monitoring, Abdou Aziz DiédhiouBBC Afrique, Natasha Booty and Chris EwokorBBC Africa ShareSave Until recently Islamists in Mali had been more active in the north and centre Mali's military government has sought to calm anger...
Fewer than five green hydrogen projects in Egypt have advanced beyond the feasibility stage despite Cairo’s efforts to position itself as a global hub for renewable hydrogen production, according to a new report by Switzerland-based Green Hydrogen...
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), one of the world’s leading certification schemes for sustainable fisheries, has confirmed that it has not certified any fisheries in Moroccan, Mauritanian, or Western Saharan waters. Consequently, no product...
Mauritania has signed its first public-private partnership (PPP) in the energy sector for the construction of a hybrid solar and wind facility. The government has entered into an agreement with Ewa Green Energy to finance, develop, build and...
Felice Friedson walks readers through the Abraham Accords at five years—part progress report, part stress test—as veteran insider Asher Fredman weighs what has endured and what must change. Brokered by President Donald Trump in 2020, the accords...
OUTGOING President of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Prof. Benedict Oramah, has issued a passionate call to African commercial lenders, development finance institutions (DFIs), and trade insurers to take stronger ownership of the...
The UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Gehad Madi, concluded a ten-day visit to Mauritania and commended the government’s legislative progress on Friday while warning that persistent human rights violations against migrants...
