NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Nearly 2 million people go to the polls on Saturday in Mauritania, a vast desert nation in West Africa which positions itself as a strategic ally of the West in a region swept by coups and violence, but has been denounced for rights abuses.
President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, widely expected to win a second term, is a former army chief who came to power in 2019…
