Mauritania (Vol 18, 2021)
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Anti-corruption efforts, including investigation of the former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, served as a noticeable public relations tool for building credibility abroad, and functioned also as a warning to current government officials and high-level businesspeople. The position of President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani remained stable, and one of his priorities was to ease tensions with the opposition. Civil society demands succeeded in applying pressure on the government to increase the representation of hitherto under-represented groups. Economic policy was largely focused on combating an increase in poverty as a consequence of the continued Covid-19 pandemic and the contraction in gdp in the previous year. The government addressed the Covid-19 recession with a more ambitious policy of redistribution, but community tensions persisted. Despite a still fragile security situation in the Sahel region, the terrorist risk on Mauritanian soil was assessed to be lower than in the neighbouring Sahelian countries.
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Mauritania (Vol 18, 2021)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Helen Olsson in
Current site
Google Scholar
Search for other papers by Claes Olsson in
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Google Scholar
(3,087 words)