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 ...

Moktar Diallo left Mali in 2015, dreaming of reaching Europe by boat from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands. A decade ...

Foreign nationals accused of trying to migrate towards Europe are transported in a car by Mauritanian police officials in Nouadhibou before being expelled from the country on May 23, 2006. [File: ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — African migrants desperate to escape the world's poorest continent are streaming through Mauritania to embark on a perilous ocean voyage to Europe that has already killed ...

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, speaks at the European Parliament. The conservative European People's Party (EPP) nominated European Commission President Ursula von der ...

YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Days after his release from jail, one of Mauritania's top anti-slavery campaigners called on Europe to stop doing business with and giving aid to the West ...

A school for migrant children in Mauritania is an example of what's to come after the European Union pledged more than $200 million last year to help persuade people there against coming to the ...

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 clean houses, drive informal ...