During the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on preventing and combating corruption, the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Abdoullah Oullah Ould Boye, stressed that overcoming corruption requires a real fight. For Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Abdoullah Oullah Ould Boye, corruption is considered to be one of the most serious challenges facing countries in general and those in need. development in particular. It states that it constitutes a threat to democracy and the rule of law.

Mauritania has recently reviewed national mechanisms with a view to modernizing and developing them in line with the imperatives of preventing and combating corruption by ratifying international and regional conventions to combat corruption and including its requirements in national legislation. Mauritania is also actively participating in the review processes of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, as it has completed the first cycle of the review, while a government team composed of various sectors involved in the fight against corruption is continuing the self-assessment process with a view to completing the second cycle of the review. To fill legislative and institutional gaps, and to deal with the various financial aspects related to corruption offenses, the national legal arsenal has been strengthened with an anti-corruption law and a new anti-money laundering and terrorist financing law, which is law no. 017 of 2019.

“The institutional measures taken by the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have made it possible to introduce fundamental reforms in the structures of anti-corruption bodies, revising their competences, granting them broad powers in terms of access to information, freezing and seizure, and the protection of witnesses and whistle-blowers to promote the detection of corruption offenses,” indicated& eacute; the minister. Nevertheless, he finds that anti-corruption efforts will remain limited in results unless work continues relentlessly in the fight against corruption and bad governance