Mauritania

The European Union is setting up an unofficial border task force by recruiting African countries to prevent the smuggling of illegal immigrants. In return for this service, they receive infrastructure aid or just a bounty type of payout per month. Mauritania was the latest to join this foray. In return for preventing African migrants from crossing to the Canary Islands, Mauritania will receive assistance to set up high energy power lines, humanitarian aid to deal with the food crisis and to help strengthen the border with Mali.

While it has a polished outlook, the treatment of captured immigrants is not humane. They are often lodged in overcrowded facilities and not given adequate food or water. Many of them are simply led into the desert and abandoned.

Pray for God’s children in the Mauritanian military and local municipalities to be compassionate towards captured immigrants (The Bible, Exodus 22:21).

Pray for God to raise His children in the European Union to closely monitor the treatment of immigrants by Mauritania (The Bible, Deuteronomy 10:19).

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Mauritania is listed in 23rd position in the World Watch report 2024 by Open Doors for Christian persecution. The Islamic Republic of Mauritania lies on the Atlantic coast of North Africa. The Sahara makes up 90% of Mauritania’s land. The President / the Prime Minister is Mohamed Ould Cheikh el Ghazouani. Though filled with natural beauty and political peace compared to many of the surrounding countries, Mauritania is one of the poorest Arab nations with social and political problems, including racism, slavery, illiteracy, child marriage and female genital mutilation. The government is intolerant of conversion to Christianity. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), particularly active in the country’s eastern border regions, are the Violent Islamic extremist groups in the country.