Madar (Nouakchott) - President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, received at the presidential palace in Nouakchott the credentials of several new ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Mauritania, the presidency said.
Among the envoys whose credentials the presidency said it had received were the new ambassadors of Niger, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, the Czech Republic, Venezuela, Portugal, Ghana, Namibia, Panama, Switzerland, Burkina Faso and Nigeria. Nigeria's new ambassador was then received by the president in the presence of Foreign Minister Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug. The president also received the credentials of Sweden's new ambassador, who told the Mauritanian News Agency that diplomatic relations between the two countries go back 55 years.
The presidency had announced in the morning that the president was receiving "a number of ambassadors from different countries" to present their credentials, before publishing images of each ceremony in turn.
