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Mauritania
موريتانيا מאוריטניה3 parties on file · 1 currently in government
Timeline · 1 event
Region timeline →-
Ghazouani re-elected for second term
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was re-elected President of Mauritania on 2024-06-29 for a second five-year term.
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Country mean — Economic -1.3, Social -3.3
Ringed dots are parties currently in government. See the full regional compass · hand-coded estimates; methodology.
Current leadership
- Head of state In gov
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani محمد ولد الشيخ الغزواني
El Insaf (Equity Party)
President of Mauritania since 2019; re-elected in 2024. Former chief of the general staff under his predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
- Activist
Biram Dah Abeid بيرام داه عبيد
Independent
Mauritanian anti-slavery activist and three-time presidential candidate (2014, 2019, 2024). Founder of IRA-Mauritania, which campaigns against the de facto continuation of caste-based slavery in the country. Has served two prison sentences for his activism — once for burning religious texts he argued were used to justify slavery, once for an arrest weeks before the 2019 election. Finished second in 2024 with 22% of the vote.
Parties
- El Insaf (Equity Party) حزب الإنصاف
Led by · Mohamed Melainine Ould Eyih
Mauritania's current ruling party, founded in 2022 as the political vehicle for President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. Successor in spirit to the Union for the Republic (UPR).
- National Rally for Reform and Development (Tewassoul) حزب التجمع الوطني للإصلاح والتنمية - تواصل
Led by · Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Seyidi
Mauritanian Muslim Brotherhood–aligned moderate Islamist party. Has been the leading parliamentary opposition force since 2013.
- Union of Forces of Progress اتحاد قوى التقدم
Led by · Mohamed Ould Maouloud
Mauritanian social-democratic party with a base among progressive intellectuals; small but durable parliamentary presence as an opposition voice.
Source documents · 6
All docs →- النظام الأساسي لحزب الإنصاف (El Insaf Party statute / basic law) — الديباجة + المبادئ والأهداف 252 words
- النظام الأساسي لحزب الإنصاف (El Insaf Party statute) — الديباجة + المبادئ والأهداف 128 words
- Mohamed Ould Ghazouani — Address to the 79th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2024 (Arabic original) 140 words
- Biram Dah Abeid — 'La loi fondamentale sacralise un code négrier' (Le Point Afrique interview, 28 December 2017) 262 words
- UFP — Déclaration de Politique générale (document d'orientation stratégique, IIIe Congrès, 2013) 384 words
- الرؤية المرجعية لحزب التجمع الوطني للإصلاح والتنمية (تواصل) — Tawassoul founding Reference Vision 217 words
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Mauritania [Country profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/MR
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mauritania." Country profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/MR.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-country-mr,
title = {{Mauritania}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Country profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/c/MR},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.