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Asharq Al-Awsat
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US: Mauritania Doesn’t Enforce Law Criminalizing Corruption by Gov’t Officials

FILE PHOTO - People enter the State Department Building in Washington, US, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

The US Department of State has issued the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which strives to provide a factual and objective record on the status of human rights worldwide in 2021, covering 198 countries and territories.

The report indicated that corruption constitutes a real problem in Mauritania, affirming that authorities don’t effectively enforce the law, which provides criminal penalties for corruption by government officials.

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