Mauritania

A group of people crowded onto a small open boat in the deep blue sea

Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal

February 12, 2024Migration

The European Union just signed a deal with the West African nation Mauritania: In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, Mauritania has pledged to stop the tens of thousands of migrants heading by boat to Spain from its shores.

An offshore gas terminal is lit up amid the Atlantic Ocean as houses lay on the beachfront between the sea and the Senegal River, bottom, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Jan. 18, 2023.

Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?

July 25, 2023Energy

Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix

March 31, 2023Arts, Culture & Media

Men in orange and yellow jackets lift a box of vaccines from COVAX off of a truck bed

Norway’s minister calls on others to follow his country’s lead in sharing COVID-19 vaccines

April 28, 2021COVID-19

US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford is stands at a podium during a press conference.

Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS

October 24, 2017Conflict

A US special forces soldier demonstrates how to detain a suspect during Flintlock 2014, a US-led international training mission for African militaries, in Diffa, Niger, March 4, 2014.

Niger raid highlights US military’s growing role in Africa

October 21, 2017Conflict

The killing of four American special operations soldiers in Niger has highlighted the increasing role elite units are playing across Africa, where their mission is to counter the advances of a slew of jihadist movements, including al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS affiliates in the Sahel region and Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Mauritania singer Noura Mint Seymali backstage in January 2013

From Mauritania: A song for breast cancer awareness

January 17, 2017Music

Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania and she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their yearly breast cancer screenings. Seymali helps raise awareness through a song.

Daby Touré’s new record ‘Amonafi’ is an homage to the displaced

March 30, 2016Conflict

Mauritian musician Daby Touré recently released his latest record called “Amonafi.” On the album, Touré sings about displacement, especially all the people he’s seen leave Africa for Europe.

Global themes dominate this year’s Oscar nominations

January 15, 2015Arts

Everyone is buzzing about the Oscar nominations, which were released Thursday morning. But where do you start? If you care about global issues, here are a few suggestions.

Noura Mint Seymali, with her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly behind her, playing at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on her first US tour.

Blending in a little funk from a Mauritanian musical ambassador

October 9, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali comes from a prominent family of griots—keepers of traditional musical and story. She’s spicing up that tradition, and trying to introduce it to the world.