(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) The momentum for the 2014 Orange African Nations Championship (CHAN) is gradually building up with the arrival of five teams for the tournament. The q...

[Egypt Online]The State Information Service (SIS) hosted on Wednesday 11/12/2013 at its headquarters in Nasr City a delegation of African journalists English and French speaking, who are attending a tr...

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has been on a tour of the Sahel, including Mauritania, Mali and Niger, since last Thursday (October 24th).

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) appointed a Mauritanian and an Algerian to replace its slain chiefs, ANI reported on Monday (September 23rd), citing a source from norther...

[allAfrica]Washington, DC -The Sahel region of Africa, a wide expanse that spreads from Mauritania on the west coast to Somalia on the east - gets very little attention, except when the threat of Islam...

Militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar masterminded the two suicide bombs in Niger on Thursday which killed 20 people, a Mauritanian news agency reports.

[SPS]Algiers -Maghreb student organizations from Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania urged Sunday from Algiers the United Nations for "urgent and immediate application" of the dictates of international law...

Thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Mali are enduring "appalling" conditions in a UN-run camp in Mauritania, a medical charity warns.

[Magharebia]Nouakchott -Mauritania on Sunday (March 17th) hosted several foreign ministers for a meeting on Sahel security.

pLast year, Islamist groups swept into northern Mali, imposing a harsh form of retributive justice marked by executions and amputations. Fleeing their oppressive rule and the ensuing fighting, nearly a...