NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Islamic extremists allied with al-Qaida are the suspected killers of four French tourists in Mauritania; the Frenchmen were gunned down after they stopped for a Christmas Eve ...

(Tunis) – Mauritania’s national civil registration process is preventing some children from attending public school and taking mandatory national examinations, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...

In just two months, in Madrid, Abbass has undergone surgery, lived with a host family, and begun a new life. The fall he had three years ago broke his nose and ever since he has not been able to ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...