Mauritania - News and Analysis

Security in the Sahel and the West's Military Fixation

Western powers are responding to insecurity in the Sahel by instigating greater military projects. But this could lead to the very outcomes the West is trying to avoid.


	Libya vs. The ICC: Stalemate over Saif and Senussi Libya insists on trying Saif and Senussi in national courts but have custody of neither. The ICC cannot give Libya the right try them.
	Remembering the Tirailleurs Sénégalais How should the West African troops, who fought for colonial France, be remembered today?
	Review: Songs for Desert Refugees An album to raise money for north Malian refugees brings together some of the best desert rockers.
	Mauritania: WFP Faces Funding Shortages for School Meals and Refugees Amidst the Sahel food crisis, relief agency programmes are in danger due to insufficient funding.
	Mauritania: Relief Aid Running out for Mali's Refugees Donations are urgently needed to avoid famine in the Sahel.
	Breaking the Drought Cycle in the Western Sahel Is there hope of a new policy direction tackling the causes as well as symptoms of food insecurity following another food crisis in the Western Sahel?
	Mauritania School Meals Run Out as Drought and High Prices Strike WFP information officer Jacqueline Seeley explains that funding is urgently needed to provide relief to a million “food insecure”.
	Sahel Food Crisis: A Race Against Time Action must be taken immediately if millions of lives in the Sahel region are to be saved.
	Will the Arab Spring make the Arab Maghreb Union Bloom? There have long been hopes of a functioning regional union, but obstacles remain.
	Slavery Lives on in Mauritania, the World's "Last Apartheid State" Despite the practice being finally abolished in 1981, an estimated 600,000 Mauritanians live in bondage.