Police at demonstration, Nouakchott.

Diallo and Mamadou, tailors in Nouakchott.

Ahmed at a protest in Nouakchott.

We sympathise with Zouerat march towards Nouakchott.

Opposition sit in in Nouakchott on May 2.

The police sent these teachers to its various offices in Nouakchott.

Today's Koran desecration incident in the Capital Nouakchott is a case that raises concern and caution.

The march, he writes, is expected to reach Nouakchott by the middle of March, if not earlier.

A sit in in Nouakchott by opposition groups was violently dispersed by security forces in the early hours of May 3.

Photograph of the protest facing the US Embassy in Nouakchott Posted on the Facebook page of the Youth of Democratic Forces Gathering

Education The city is home to the University of Nouakchott, which is the only university in Mauritania and was opened in 1981.

In mysterious circumstances, at least 28 black African soldiers were executed in a remote village located 500km to the north of the capital Nouakchott.

Mauritanian media has reported this week that the country's authorities are preparing a major meeting in the capital Nouakchott of prominent Arab bloggers and activists.

In 1958, Mauritania was formed as an autonomous republic in the French Community, and in 1960 it became an independent country, with Nouakchott as its capital.

Some of them also protested in front of the presidential palace in Nouakchott and threatened to resign from their posts in case the decision is not retracted.

As a result of this confrontation, one person was killed various people were injured and traffic was blocked in many parts of Nouakchott. The clashes happened on March 3.

Nouakchott University has been transformed this year into a war scene as Mauritanian Security Forces raided the campus on a daily basis, amid a crackdown on protesters and arrested activists.

tounsiahourra Of course, the Libyan minister of finance's presence in Nouakchott to extradite Senoussi faces a lot of question marks. It's like an old Egyptian movie called Give and Take

Citymag, a free magazine distributed monthly in Nouakchott has started to publish my drawings. Maybe that will inspire more people to pick up a pen or pencil and start sketching.

Mauritanian activists have embarked on a 470 kilometre journey on foot, from the city of Nouadhibou to the capital Nouakchott, carrying a number of economic and political demands to the authorities.

On Saturday, January 5 , a group of illegal or Journalia (temporary or seasonal) workers, started a long march from the city of Zouerat in order to reach the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott.

A document listing the subscriptions that needed renewal by 1 January, 2010, details a series of contributory sums meant for two dozen publications in Damascus, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Kuwait, Amman and Nouakchott.

Across the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, at junctions and under trees, you will see children known as Al Mudat , aged between 4 and 14 years, carrying empty tomato cans begging pedestrians for some money.

On the 22nd of April, the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, witnessed a wave of protests by dockers which ended in the authorities cracking down on them and arresting some, resulting in injuries among the crowds.

After Friday Prayers, hundreds of Mauritanians took to the streets of the capital Nouakchott on November 16, 2012, in a solidarity rally with Gaza residents after the city became the target of heavy Israeli bombing.

The Mauritanian capital Nouakchott witnessed violent clashes between security forces and an angry crowd. The story is that anonymous people tore up the Quran, the holy book of Islam, in one of the city's mosques.

In Boutlimit, 64km south east of Nouakchott, after nine people also died from that odd disease, primary schools directors decided to reduce the daily teaching hours so as to avoid exposing students to the scorching sun.

Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro ( Isabelfiadeiro) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery. Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania with images of daily life in the West African nation.

Senoussi was flown on a private jet from the capital Nouakchott to the Libyan capital Tripoli. He was accompanied by both ministers of justice and finance Ali Hamida Chaabane and Hassan Mokhtar Hamida Zaklan, who presided the Libyan delegation.

Algerian The Moor Next Door writes about Abbass Ould Braham, a University of Nouakchott professor and writer for Taqadoumy the leftist Mauritanian news website often cited here who was arrested this Monday after writing a lengthly piece accosting the junta.

On Tuesday February 12, 2013, a group of Mauritanian activists staged a protest in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, against sexual harassment and rape which Egyptian women are being subject to in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

I am an opponent of the military regime in my country. I hate racism and slavery and all forms of exploitation of humans by their fellow brothers. I was born in the town of Boutilimit, around 150km South East of the capital Nouakchott.

For some time now I've been hearing about strikes, protests and arrests at the only Mauritanian university, the University of Nouakchott, as well as about the expulsion of a large number of students, the torture of some, and their being prevented from praying during their detention.

This not the first time such an incident happens at Nouakchott University. Twenty one other students from various faculties (some of them senior ones) were expelled earlier this year in the aftermath of the protests witnessed by the establishments, which were asking for the fulfillment of some of their demands.

Senoussi was handed over two days after Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour who visited Nouakchott for three days, where he expressed his hope for Mauritania to contribute in the investigation concerning the disappearance of the head of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council in Lebanon Musa Al Sadr in 1978 in Libya.

In the town of Al Syasa, in Tagant, the local population talks about a mysterious disease some sort of fever which had spread along with the heatwave, killing three people. Medical and health authorities, sent samples from the victims to the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to determine the cause of death. By the time this post is online, the number of victims could have increased.