HIGHLIGHTS
While Mauritania has maintained its borders open to new arrivals of asylum seekers in the country, UNHCR continues to cooperate with the Mauritanian authorities in order to strengthen protection for refugees and asylum seekers in Mauritania.
To this end, a protection workshop was carried out by UNHCR on 6 August 2015 for 12 Mauritanian civil servants in charge of national registration centers.
Between August and September, more than 1,000 urban refugees in Nouakchott were provided with clothes generously donated by the clothes company UNIQLO.
In Mberra Camp, UNHCR continues to promote refugees’ self-reliance through the financing of 80 income-generating projects and the follow up on projects financed in previous years. In August, beneficiaries were provided with common assets and individual kits to enable them to carry out their activities.
UNHCR, in cooperation with WFP and the Commissariat à la sécurité alimentaire, organized a general food distribution in August targeting all refugees in the camp.