Mauritania Mauritania is located in West Africa and shares its frontiers with Senegal, Mali, Algeria, and Western Sahara. Its population of under 2.3 million inhabitants is an ethnic mosaic because of the country's situation between North Africa...

Mauritanian Islamic Republic [French] République Islamique de Mauritanie [Arabic] Al-Jumhuriyah; al-Islamiyah al-Muritaniyah CAPITAL: Nouakchott FLAG: The flag consists of a gold star and crescent on a light green field. ANTHEM: Mauritania (no...

Mauritania POPULATION 2,828,858 MUSLIM 100 percent Country Overview Introduction The Islamic Republic of Mauritania lies on the West African coast. Largely arid and flat, the country is bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwest and...

Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا Mūrītāniyā), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North-West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast,...

Mauritania's interior minister blamed a terrorist sleeper cell Wednesday for the Christmas Eve killing of four French family members visiting the African country.Mauritania, on the edges of the Sahara desert, has been relatively free of terrorism by comparison with neighbors such as Algeria, where earlier...

A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.The wooden boat, known as the "Marin 1," came ashore at the fishing port of Nouadhibou,...

Mauritania has passed a law promising jail time for slave-holders, an important step in the northwest African country's push to eliminate a practice that has quietly persisted despite a 25-year-old ban.The law, adopted unanimously late Wednesday by the legislature, calls for prison sentences of up...

A boat of about 200 migrants _ most believed to be from Pakistan _ was waiting off the Mauritanian coast Monday after the West African country refused to receive the craft intercepted by Spanish authorities.Mauritania "is not involved with this boat or its occupants, and...

Facts about the northwestern African nation of Mauritania, including information on natural resources, population, education and religion.