A desert country in Northwest Africa, Mauritania is an underrated travel destination. The country gets overlooked for many reasons. Despite persistent strides from local activists, slavery is still ...

Two decades after severing ties with Israel, the western African nation of Mauritania is poised to play a key role in kickstarting the stalled Abraham Accords — a major diplomatic initiative of ...

Mauritania is a lower middle-income country in the Sahel with a population of 4.7 million that lives over a vast but mostly arid 1,030,700 km2 territory. Mauritania is exposed to recurrent cycles of ...