Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritania's growth rate for 2013 is estimated at 6.7%, the highest rate in the region where the average growth is 2.1%, according to a report of the International Monet...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The third edition of the festival of Ancient Cities of Mauritania (FVAM) got off to a huge start Tuesday with hundreds of European tourists, particularly French, already...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Gold-production company, Tasiast Mauritania, announced here Sunday that it would sack 293 of its workforce because of the prevailing difficult economic situation and the...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? With 52 parliamentarians elected during the first round of the legislative polls on 23 November, the ruling Mauritanian Union for the Republic (URP) is poised for an abs...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - African Union (AU) observers led by former Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia are monitoring Saturday's run-off of Mauritania's legislative and municipal elections, ...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A Senior Spanish security official, Francisco Martinez Vasquez, arrived in Nouakchott Tuesday on a visit, whose aim Mauritanian officials have not clarified, PANA learnt...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? A minister in the outgoing government in Mauritania, Mrs Mary Mint Hamady, has been elected as the new mayor of the capital city, Nouakchott, sources said on Tuesday. ...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Italian government on Monday donated 4 million euros to Mauritania to enhance agricultural production in the country, PANA learnt from official sources. Agricultu...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The Mauritanian press on Monday highlighted last Thursday's election of president Mohamed Ould Abdel as chairman of the African Union (AU) at the opening of its 22nd sum...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Thirty out of 147 parliamentary seats and the most important town councils are at stake in Mauritania's second round of legislative and municipal elections scheduled for...