Infosheet: Mauritania at 60
On the occasion of the Africa 2020 year, the ASCL has created Infosheets about the countries that became independent in 1960. Of the seventeen colonies gaining independence in that year, Mauritania was the last one, on November 28th. Mauritania had been a French protectorate and later a colony from 1920 onwards, as part of French West Africa.
This is ASC Infosheet 50. Read the other Infosheets.
Posted on 24 November 2020, last modified on 2 December 2020