Another Sahel state to elect president

Six candidates are challenging Mauritania’s leader, who came to power in 2019 following the nation’s first democratic transition

Mauritanians go to the polls on Saturday to elect a president from a list of seven candidates, including the incumbent, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani. Nearly two million people have registered to cast their ballots, data published on the website of the West African nation’s Independent Election Commission (CENI) indicates.