Mauritania is predominantly a desert country, with vast stretches of pastoral land and only 0.5% arable land. The population is estimated at around 5 million (2024), and with a density of 5 ...

LAGOS—The Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos has busted a human trafficking syndicate that specialised in trafficking gullible ladies between 19 and 21 years to Mauritania, where they are used as sex ...

The PADISAM project team inspects a dam still undergoing rehabilitation in southern Mauritania. Photo credit: Fred Kizito / World Bank, February 2024. The PADISAM project aims to rehabilitate ...

The interconnection project is accompanied by the construction of a 50 MW PV array in Kiffa, Mauritania. This will connect 100,000 new households (80,000 in Mauritania and 20,000 in Mali) to the ...