Approximately a thousand gold miners from Mauritania have reportedly crossed into the buffer zone along the border with ...

Fighting alongside Malian soldiers, Wagner mercenaries have massacred civilians and burned their villages in northern Mali, ...

Photos: UN warns M23 advances threaten regional conflict in eastern DRC Fears of regional conflict grow as M23 captures cities in eastern DRC, prompting UN concern over strategic advances.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Boys sit in a classroom at Nouadhibou’s Organization for the Support of Migrants and refugees, Mauritania ...

From Mauritania, they risk hundreds of miles of sea and howling winds to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. The route puts new strain on this port city of 177,000 people at the edge of the Sahara.

NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania (AP) — Eager students from throughout west Africa raise their hands as teachers guide them through math and classical Arabic. Then they race outdoors to meet their parents ...

Inside, posters warn the ocean can be deadly. Such messaging is hard to escape in Nouadhibou, Mauritania's second-largest city and a launch point on an increasingly popular migrant route toward ...

NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania (AP) — Eager students from throughout west Africa raise their hands as teachers guide them through math and classical Arabic. Then they race outdoors to meet their parents, who ...

Amsatou Vepouyoum, president of Nouadhibou's Organization for the Support of Migrants and refugees, sits in her office, Mauritania, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Moulay) ...