Earlier he made an official Ecowas visit to Mauritania where he met with President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani to discuss transnational security cooperation...

President Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani having solidified his hegemonic rule over the ruling El Insaf (Parti de l'équité) is making calculated steps to further Mauritania's cooperation with the European Union...

For example Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz discovered this after stepping aside in 2019 for confidant Mohamed Ould Ghazouani...

Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani spent the first months of his second term balancing its relations with Algeria: it boosts ties with better road transport and trade in minerals especially phosphates as well as building up political influence (AC Vol 65 No 14 Ghazouani gets second term)...

After comfortably securing more than half the votes cast in the 29 June first round and thus outright victory head of state Mohamed Ould Ghazouani will serve a second five-year term...

Ahead of the summit Kenya's President William Ruto Mauritania's Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and the AfDB's Akinwumi Adesina penned co-ordinated opinion pieces demanding new measures on debt restructuring more flexibility in the use of IMF Special Drawing Rights and easier access for African states to concessional funding (AC Vol 65 No 12 Adesina urges the bank to go private)...

Mauritania could be an option but President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani would prefer to get his election in June out of the way first...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen who was accompanied at her meetings with President Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani in Nouakchott last week by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has promised to double humanitarian assistance for Mauritania including support to refugees from Mali as part of a 'common roadmap' on migration management with Mauritania that officials say will be finalised in the coming weeks...

Italian MEP Andrea Cozzolino – who employed Giorgi after Panzeri's retirement from the European Parliament in 2019 and chaired the Parliament's Mauritania delegation – held meetings with President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani in 2022...