Nice, France – Thursday, 13 June 2025 – As global leaders gather in Nice for the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), UNESCO is proud to unveil a bold new initiative to strengthen the resilience of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, October 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ICMPD is hosting the 10th Vienna Migration Conference (VMC) on 21-22 October 2025. EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner and Commissioner for the Mediterranean...
On 5 December 2024, managers from the 51 UNESCO World Heritage marine sites convened online with experts from UNESCO and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to share best practices in managing tourism sustainably across...
In The News 04 Feb 2025 In the face of escalating climate challenges, local communities hold immense potential to drive meaningful change. With their deep understanding of local environments, actors, opportunities, and barriers, they are uniquely...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A team of U.S. Army Civil Affairs Soldiers from the 360th Civil Affairs Brigade, 478th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), deployed in support of U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), is currently...
Hospitals in Mauritania are under growing strain as an outbreak of an unidentified fever spreads through the country’s two largest cities, Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, raising alarm among residents and health professionals. Regional hospitals in...
At a recent Mediterranean Dialogues Forum in Naples, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug delivered a sobering assessment of how Africa’s security landscape is changing — and what that means for neighboring regions and...
Mauritania is contending with concurrent outbreaks of diphtheria and Rift Valley fever that have left at least 36 people dead in recent weeks. The twin crises expose persistent gaps in public health capacity at a moment when the country is also...
Residents of Chami, a mining hub in western Mauritania, have taken to the streets to protest severe and prolonged water shortages that have left parts of the city without running water for days. Demonstrations erupted on October 15 outside the...
The highest temperature anomalies in 2023 were recorded across northwestern Africa, especially in Morocco, coastal parts of Mauritania and northwest Algeria. Several countries including Mali, Morocco, United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda...
The environmental problem in Africa is massive and growing every day. As Monique Walker puts it, the tragic dilemma is that “although Africa is the continent that contributes to the earth’s environmental change, it is the most vulnerable to its...
Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Alaa Farouk, has held talks with Mauritania’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Sidi Ahmed Ould Abouh, to explore ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in agriculture and promote...
The WAES is organized by OGV Group in partnership with the African Energy Chamber, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Energy Industries Council, the Scottish African Business Association, the UK Ghana Chamber of Commerce and the Global...
Mauritania has signed its first independent power producer contract, covering a 60 MW solar-wind hybrid project. Niger has entered into a financing agreement with the African Development Bank that plans to develop 240 MW of solar power by the end...
MOROCCO-MAURITANIA The Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (L’École Marocaine des Sciences de l’Ingénieur – EMSI) is to open a branch in the capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott, marking a milestone in Mauritania-Morocco bilateral academic...
