Madar (Nouakchott) - The finance committee of Mauritania's National Assembly on Thursday evening, 12 November 2026, examined the budgets of the presidency, the Prime Minister's office and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Development under the initial 2027 finance bill, according to the Mauritanian News Agency (AMI).
According to the same source, the bill allocates 444,933,603 ouguiyas to the presidency, 720,158,152 ouguiyas to the Prime Minister's office and 4,470,318,637 ouguiyas to Economic Affairs and Development.
Together, the three budgets total 5,635,410,392 ouguiyas, or more than 5.6 billion ouguiyas, about 79% of which goes to Economic Affairs and Development.
The Minister of Economic Affairs and Development, who is also acting finance minister, presented the main items of these budgets and their spending areas to the committee, AMI said.
The meeting followed a session held by the committee the same morning on the bill as a whole, which projects total revenue of about 152.11 billion new ouguiyas for 2027, as Madar reported in an earlier story.
