Mauritania and Senegal Report Rift Valley Fever Deaths Amid Regional Outbreak

Health authorities in Mauritania and Senegal are grappling with a new outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a mosquito-borne viral disease that primarily affects livestock but can also infect humans. On September 29, Mauritania’s Ministry of Health...

Chinese-built raw water pre-treatment project inaugurated in Mauritania

NOUAKCHOTT, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- The Beni Nadji raw water pre-treatment station project, located in Mauritania's Trarza region and constructed by a Chinese company, was inaugurated on Monday. More than 300 people attended the ceremony, including...

Mauritania Reports First Death from Rift Valley Fever

Mon 29 Sep 2025 | 08:26 PM Mauritania has confirmed its first death from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in the southern border city of Rosso, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health published by the Mauritanian News Agency. The ministry said...

Mauritania reports 1st death from Rift Valley Fever since 2022

Mauritanian authorities on Sunday reported the first death from Rift Valley Fever since 2022. A Health Ministry statement said a citizen arriving from a neighboring country showed symptoms of a hemorrhagic fever. Tests confirmed that he was...

Mauritania confirms Rift Valley fever death, quarantines 10 contacts

Mauritania has confirmed its first death from Rift Valley Fever (RVF) since 2022, health authorities announced on Sunday. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the deceased was a citizen who had recently arrived from a neighbouring country....

Mauritania reports rift valley fever death in border town

HESPRESS English – Morocco News International Hespress ENSunday 28 September 2025 - 10:42 Mauritania’s Health Ministry on Thursday confirmed one death from Rift Valley fever in Rosso, a southern town on the border with Senegal. The ministry said...

IMO supports Mauritania to advance digitalization in the port of Nouakchott

A needs assessment mission carried out in Mauritania is assessing the current situation in the Member State and will lay the groundwork to set up a maritime single window system in the Port of Nouakchott (Nouakchott Friendship Port). The Maritime...

Ghanaian Sports Scientist cycles for 103 days, raising $20,000 for Teshie community library

By Maltiti Sayida Sadick In a recent interview on GTV Breakfast Show, German-based sports scientist Emmanuel Nii Akporh Adjei highlighted the importance of quality education as the motivation behind his Bike2myroots project. With a background in...

FCWC, partners launch West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme 

By Laudia Sawer Tema, Oct. 02, GNA – The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), in collaboration with its national and international partners, has launched the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme (WASOP)-Pillar. The...

AATB Launches Initiative in Mauritania

The Arab Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Program has launched a strategic initiative in Mauritania to develop national capacity for wheat seed multiplication, enhance agricultural productivity, and fortify the wheat value chain. Implemented in...

AATB launches wheat development initiative in Mauritania to boost food security

The Arab Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Programme has launched a strategic initiative in Mauritania aimed at strengthening national wheat production, reducing reliance on imports, and improving food security, a statement from the organisation said on...

Should "Plaintiff … Have to Travel from Mauritania to Louisville … for His Deposition"?

Plaintiff Yacoub Ould Sidya resides in Mauritania in Western Africa. But he initiated this defamation lawsuit in the Western District of Kentucky. The question before the Court is whether Plaintiff should have to travel from Mauritania to...

‘A gift from heaven’: the TikTok traders of Mauritania’s meteorites

By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania’s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the...

Africa flies high at ICAO Assembly, secures 8 council seats 

Africa has secured the election of all its eight candidates to the 36-member International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) during the UN agency’s 42nd assembly held in Montreal, Canada. Africa has secured the election of all its eight...

French Grinder Puts on a Clinic to Win UDSO Marrakech Main Event

Many poker festivals around the world are filled with players with obscene Hendon Mob scores, boasting earnings with multiple commas. But that’s not quite the case for the Unibet DeepStack Open (UDSO). The festival has always been geared toward...

Morocco risk pressure points from this week: finance, health, security

Welcome to this week’s edition of our Weekly Risk Watch, offering insights into the economic, political, and security updates that could have significant implications for your business or daily life. Economy and market: Automotive Skills Shortage:...

Mauritania, resource-rich Islamic nation, weighs economic boost from joining Trump's Abraham Accords

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 President Trump. Israel’s decisive strikes this year...

Mauritania plans restricted military zone along border amid Polisario pressure

HESPRESS English – Morocco News General Hespress ENSaturday 6 September 2025 - 20:11 The Polisario Front has expressed strong discontent with new security measures introduced by the Mauritanian army to tighten control along the country’s northern...

World News | Youth from 40 Countries Gather in Krasnoyarsk for Financial Security Olympiad

Moscow [Russia], October 2 (ANI): The final stage of the International Olympiad on Financial Security has officially opened at the Siberian Federal University, welcoming around 600 schoolchildren and students from 40 countries, including CIS,...

Reflection on Nigeria at 65

By Olusegun Adeniyi When Nigeria marked its 60th independence anniversary five years ago, I recalled how 1960 was deemed ‘The Year of Africa’. Because 16 of the 17 countries that gained independence that year were from the continent. I then...