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On 2 January 2014, Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ould Mkhaitir, a young Mauritanian engineer from the northern industrial city of Nouadhibou, published a denunciation of caste-based racism which he framed as a call for religious reform. He dared to challenge...

Here’s another persecution on religious grounds. We, African youth and defenders of freedom and human dignity, with the support of human rightsliberty and freedom defenders, have learned with great sorrow that the death penalty has been imposed on Mohamed...

Investigators in Guinea-Bissau said Monday four men suspected of collaborating with an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist who attempted to kill the president of Mauritania were in detention under heavy security. “Four jihadists are behind bars in a high-security...

In July 2015, the Mauritania concluded a new fisheries agreement with the European Union, giving European vessels limited access to one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. According to a recent World Bank study, fisheries make up one quarter...

Responding at the beginning of 2014 to public outrage over an alleged blasphemous article, Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, above, urged calm, telling the protesters he would take: All necessary measure to defend Islam and its prophet...