A train from the Mauritanian National Industrial and Mining Company collided with a Moroccan truck carrying vegetables, bound for the north of Nouadhibou. Fortunately, no loss of life was reported.
The Government has committed to a project to build a 450-kilometer dual carriageway between the city of Dakhla and the border town of Guerguerat with Mauritania. The announcement was made on Monday, July 22, 2019 by the Head of Government to the deputies.
The Moroccan equipment manufacturer AB Sport has managed to seduce more than one by producing the official jersey of the Mauritanian national team for its participation in the 2019 Africa Cup. However, the Nike designer has just accused it of plagiarism, while specifying that the file has already been entrusted to its legal department.
This Friday, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania jointly filed the same file to have couscous inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List of Humanity.
Morocco, the [Polisario], Algeria and Mauritania were invited yesterday by the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Köhler, for a new round table on March 21 and 22, 2019 in Switzerland.
As last year, the Polisario has just threatened to violate the Guerguarat buffer zone in anticipation of the passage of the Africa-Eco Race international rally-raid that is to reach Mauritania, then Senegal via southern Morocco.
The Moroccan under-17 football team will face the Senegalese team in the final of the North African Football Union (UNAF) Cup after their 6-0 victory over Mauritania.