Symposium on Mauritania-UAE Experience in Fight Against COVID-19

On 6 March, the Arab African Center for Communication and Development and the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research organized a symposium in Nouakchott under the theme: “the Mauritanian-Emirati experience in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic “.

The symposium was animated by a lecture presented by Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ely Mahmoud, the Director-General of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, and another presented by Ms. Aicha Khalfane Roumeithi, the Director of Studies and Research in the Emirati Center for Studies and Consultations, on Mauritania-UAE experience in the fight against the Coronavirus.

For his part, Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Dah, the Director of the Arab African Center, indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic had posed many health and social challenges for the whole world, which required all to join efforts to face these challenges.

In turn, Mr. Hacen Echemili, the Charge d’affaires of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to Mauritania, indicated that the Mauritanian Emirati relations are not the result of difficult given conditions but rather are historical relations, saying that today’s symposium proves that.