Mauritania

A group of people crowded onto a small open boat in the deep blue sea

Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal

The European Union just signed a deal with the West African nation Mauritania: In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, Mauritania has pledged to stop the tens of thousands of migrants heading by boat to Spain from its shores.

Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal
An offshore gas terminal is lit up amid the Atlantic Ocean as houses lay on the beachfront between the sea and the Senegal River, bottom, in Saint-Louis, Senegal, Jan. 18, 2023.

Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?

Europe looks to Senegal for new energy supply. But what’s in it for the Senegalese?
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Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix

Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix
Men in orange and yellow jackets lift a box of vaccines from COVAX off of a truck bed

Norway's minister calls on others to follow his country's lead in sharing COVID-19 vaccines

Norway's minister calls on others to follow his country's lead in sharing COVID-19 vaccines
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford is stands at a podium during a press conference.

Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS

Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS
A US special forces soldier demonstrates how to detain a suspect during Flintlock 2014, a US-led international training mission for African militaries, in Diffa, Niger, March 4, 2014.

Niger raid highlights US military's growing role in Africa

The killing of four American special operations soldiers in Niger has highlighted the increasing role elite units are playing across Africa, where their mission is to counter the advances of a slew of jihadist movements, including al-Shabab in Somalia, ISIS affiliates in the Sahel region and Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Niger raid highlights US military's growing role in Africa
Mauritania singer Noura Mint Seymali backstage in January 2013

From Mauritania: A song for breast cancer awareness

Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania and she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their yearly breast cancer screenings. Seymali helps raise awareness through a song.

From Mauritania: A song for breast cancer awareness
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Daby Touré's new record 'Amonafi' is an homage to the displaced

Mauritian musician Daby Touré recently released his latest record called "Amonafi." On the album, Touré sings about displacement, especially all the people he's seen leave Africa for Europe.

Daby Touré's new record 'Amonafi' is an homage to the displaced
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Global themes dominate this year's Oscar nominations

Everyone is buzzing about the Oscar nominations, which were released Thursday morning. But where do you start? If you care about global issues, here are a few suggestions.

Global themes dominate this year's Oscar nominations
Noura Mint Seymali, with her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly behind her, playing at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on her first US tour.

Blending in a little funk from a Mauritanian musical ambassador

Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali comes from a prominent family of griots—keepers of traditional musical and story. She’s spicing up that tradition, and trying to introduce it to the world.

Blending in a little funk from a Mauritanian musical ambassador
King Ibu playing at home in Vegas

Can a musician from Senegal make it in Sin City?

Tall, dark and handsome, this soulful singer has a smile a mile wide. But it's his voice that took him from his native Senegal and landed him Vegas.

Can a musician from Senegal make it in Sin City?

In Africa, Malians forced to flee, frustrated by lack of progress

Mali's split in two, the north controlled by a coalition of separatists and Islamic terrorists, the south governed by a weak, coalition government. Thousands have fled the sharia law implemented in the north, but there's no sign of an imminent resolution to the situation, despite months of talk.

In Africa, Malians forced to flee, frustrated by lack of progress

Senegalese Musician Baaba Maal Travels to Mauritania

Maal traveled the region with aid group Oxfam to witness first hand, the drought and food crisis there.

Senegalese Musician Baaba Maal Travels to Mauritania
The World

The history and power of self-immolation

To help us understand more about self-immolation and those who commit it, we are joined by Michael Biggs, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Oxford, who has been studying this form of protest.

The history and power of self-immolation
The World

Force-feeding in Mauritania

Marco Werman speaks with Abigail Haworth, Senior International editor for the U.S. edition of Marie Claire magazine. She reported on the practice of force-feeding young girls in Mauritania, a country where big is considered more beautiful.

Force-feeding in Mauritania