Mauritania - a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara DesertArab League - an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation Nouakchott - capital of Mauritania; located in western Mauritania near the Atlantic coast Africa - the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean |