Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Members of the Mauritanian opposition parties, under the umbrella Coordination of Democratic Opposition (COD), has called for the cancellation of the municipal and legis...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has condemned Sunday's terrorist attack on the Libyan army post near Benghazi that left 13 dead and many more injured. P...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian ruling Union for the Republic (UFR) won 22 new seats in the parliamentary runoff held in the country on Saturday to secure a majority of the seats in the 147...

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. ...