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Mauritania

WatchScore 2Open the map

Level, last 60 days

  • Deaths 30 d

    0

    UCDP up to 2026-08-31

  • Per million 90 d

    —

    last 90 days

  • Civilians

    —

    last 90 days

  • Incidents 30 d

    0

  • Population

    5.3 M

    World Bank

  • Plants near violence

    0 / 0

    near violence / total; 0 nuclear

Why this level1

  • +2UK FCDO advises against all travel to parts of the countryUK FCDO travel advice

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Every monitored signal

The last 60 days, each on its own scale.

  • Travel advice level (FCDO)

    3

  • People in food crisis (IPC 3+)

    175 000

  • Refugees who fled

    72 344

  • Internet outage alerts, 24 h

    4

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Deaths in organised violence, per week

Mauritania, UCDP best estimates. The red bar is the latest week.

The latest week may be incomplete.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Who the violence is between

Deaths by kind of violence, last 90 days of data.

  • State-based conflict · 0%
  • Non-state conflict · 0%
  • Against civilians · 0%

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Food, displacement, sanctions

People in food crisis (IPC 3+)
0.2 M
2026-08
Share in food crisis
3%
2026-08
Undernourishment
8.7%
2023
Refugees who fled
72,344
2025
Refugees hosted
308,868
2025
Internally displaced
—
2025
Sanctions designations
9
2026-09-29
GDP per person
$2,198
2025

FEWS NET · World Bank / FAO · UNHCR · OpenSanctions

People in crisis-level food insecurity

IPC Phase 3 or worse, month by month (FEWS NET current-situation estimates, midpoint of the published range).

FEWS NET — IPC-compatible analysis

Latest incidents of organised violence0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-08-31

Conflicts, 90 days0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Natural hazards, 30 days0

None in the last 30 days.

GDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Warnings and notices

UK FCDO: Mauritania: Avoid all travel to parts

No severe weather warning in force.

UK FCDO · WMO · WHO · Copernicus EMS

Next 7 days in Nouakchott

Day°CRainGustsWatch
Tue, Sep 2926…310.0 mm43 km/h
Wed, Sep 3026…340.0 mm46 km/h
Thu, Oct 128…390.0 mm48 km/hheat
Fri, Oct 228…380.0 mm37 km/hheat
Sat, Oct 328…330.0 mm38 km/h
Sun, Oct 426…337.3 mm39 km/h
Mon, Oct 524…2822.3 mm48 km/hthunderstorm

Forecast for the capital only; marks: heat ≥38 °C, frost ≤−20 °C, rain ≥50 mm, gusts ≥75 km/h, thunderstorms. Official warnings are above.

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Food prices in markets14

ItemPriceUSDYear
Rice (local) / KG35 MRU0.88-2%
Wheat / KG20 MRU0.51+2%
Oil (vegetable) / L78.33 MRU1.980%
Pasta (macaroni) / KG40 MRU1.010%
Milk (powder) / KG160 MRU4.04-1%
Salt (iodised) / KG20 MRU0.510%
Feed (rakhel) / 50 KG1,033.33 MRU26.09+68%
Beans (niebe) / KG98.33 MRU2.48+9%
Groundnuts / KG83.33 MRU2.10+8%
Wheat flour / KG27.92 MRU0.70+12%
Sugar / KG37.83 MRU0.95-2%
Rice (imported) / KG45 MRU1.14+6%
Sorghum (taghalit) / KG37.42 MRU0.94+7%
Maize / KG30 MRU0.760%

Median retail price across markets in the latest month reported (2026-08); change against the same month a year before.

WFP · HDX (CC BY-IGO)

Disasters since 20001

012000: 020002001: 02002: 02003: 02004: 02005: 020052006: 02007: 02008: 02009: 02010: 020102011: 02012: 02013: 02014: 02015: 020152016: 02017: 02018: 02019: Droughts 12020: 020202021: 02022: 02023: 02024: 02025: 020252026: 02026

Droughts

  • Drought in Mauritania, Senegal · Jun 21, 2019 · Medium impact for agricultural drought in 58758 km2

GDACS (orange and red alerts since 2000)