Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: Mauritania Index external link (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation of the constitution plus Background Note, a key number system to locate parts, and links to comparative information
- WIPO Lex: Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (as amended in 2012) external link (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Executive
- President, Prime Minister, Council of Ministers; see Official Government external link
Judicial
- Cour Supreme
- Juricaf: Mauritanie external link decisions in French
Legislative
- OFFICIAL GAZETTE: Journal officiel de la Republique islamique de Mauritanie
- PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Watani [National Assembly] and Majlis al-Shuyukh [Senate]
- FAOLEX: Mauritania external link (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) database of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources
- NATLEX: Mauritania external link (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security, and related human rights
- RefWorld Legal Information: Mauritania external link (UNHCR)
- WIPO Lex: Mauritania external link (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Monitor: Mauritania (Law Library of Congress)
- Law Library of Congress Search: Mauritania (Library of Congress)
- Update: Law and Legal Systems in Mauritania external link (GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Mauritania external link (WorldLII)
General Sources
- Country Study: Mauritania (Library of Congress) December 1987
- Maps: Mauritania (Library of Congress)
- World Digital Library: Mauritania (Library of Congress/UNESCO)
- BBC News: Mauritania Country Profile
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Mauritania (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Embassy of Mauritania, Washington external link
- FAO Country Profiles: Mauritania (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Relations With Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- A Guide to Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Historian)
- Human Rights in Mauritania external link (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Mauritania (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Middle East Studies: Mauritania external link (Columbia University)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Bibliothèque Nationale de Mauritanie – information external link (Library Technology Guides)
- Stanford University: Africa South of the Sudan: Mauritania external link
- U.S. Embassy, Nouakchott (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Mauritania (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Food Programme: Mauritania external link
- World Health Organization: Mauritania external link
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Last Updated: 04/27/2021
