De seneste årene i ørkenlandet Mauritania har vært preget av skiftende overganger mellom militærkupp og konstitusjonelle valg. Muhammad Ould `Abd Al-`Aziz tok makten i et kupp i oktober 2008, etter at Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi ble valgt til president i et valg i 2007 som fikk internasjonal anerkjennelse. Les mer >
Rosso/Nouakchott (Mauritania) - Nearly 25,000 Mauritanian refugees who had sheltered in Senegal for two decades after fleeing violence in 1989, have returned home since 2008, but despite extensive efforts to resettle them in their original villages many lack ID papers and/or access to their old farmland. Les mer >
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) / 8.1.2013
Ari Hara (Mauritania)/Johannesburg (South Africa) - Women are pioneering Mauritania’s fledgling dairy industry and trying to get Mauritanians to support local small producers, but they face steep competition from the heavily subsidized European milk sector. Les mer >
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) / 2.10.2012