The meetings follow one another at the headquarters of the Mauritanian Financial Investigation Unit (UMEF), the center for the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AML/FT) in Mauritania. Dissemination workshops alternate to maintain the momentum of awareness and consolidation of achievements.

Mauritania recorded encouraging results in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism in November 2020. The efforts thus made by the country in a dynamic of transparency have been recognized since the November 2020 plenary of the Gafi-Moan (regional group for the Middle East and North Africa zone). An essential Satisfaction because the non-observance of the rules enacted by the Gafi, by any country, can have unfortunate consequences on its reputation and on the mobilization of financial resources for its benefit or even arouse mistrust of large international banks to establish relations correspondence with its local banks.

Many legal and regulatory measures have been taken, including the promulgation of Law 2019/017 on the fight against ML/FT and its implementing decree No. 2019/197. A normative base that will have made it possible to legally inaugurate a series of regulatory decisions for financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professions (DNFBPs) to subject them to AML/CFT financial traceability requirements. Also at the institutional level, two committees were set up in 2019: the National Committee for the Fight against Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (CNLCBCFT) and the National Committee for the Fight against Terrorism (CNLCT).

As a reminder, Mauritania was, in 2018 still, a hair's breadth from being placed by the International Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on its gray list; that of countries with major shortcomings in their national AML/CFT system. It managed, however, to reverse this perception by making enormous progress hailed by the international community and praised by the Gafi-Moan plenary, which decided to publish a detailed report on these results. Of the 40 FATF recommendations, Mauritania has made 10 compliant recommendations, 22 largely compliant recommendations, 08 partially compliant recommendations and zero non-compliant recommendations.