Getting Mauritania to completion
Summary
Mauritania is unlikely to meet its 2026 deadlines for clearing anti-personnel landmines and cluster munitions due to insufficient funding. A survey of one of three operators showed that funding rose from USD 0.039 million in 2023 to USD 0.35 million in 2024, with 58-60% spent on capacity development. National funding targets for 2025 and 2026 (USD 1.7 million for mines and USD 0.76 million for cluster munitions) are considered lower than the actual amounts needed for completion.
Key insights
- Mauritania is unlikely to meet its international treaty deadlines to clear all contaminated territory by 1 August 2026 for cluster munitions and 31 December 2026 for anti-personnel landmines.
- As of 2023, Mauritania's contaminated territory includes 14.02km2 of cluster munitions and 11.52km2 of anti-personnel landmines.
- Funding for one surveyed operator increased from USD 0.039 million in 2023 to USD 0.35 million in 2024, with the majority (58 to 60 per cent) allocated to capacity development rather than active clearance.
- National funding targets for 2025 and 2026 total USD 1.7 million for mine clearance and USD 0.76 million for cluster munition clearance, but these sums appear insufficient to meet clearance targets.
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- Peace Research Institute Oslo (2024). Getting Mauritania to completion. https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/f31a0f9c-07a4-4405-9208-902d5a533aff/Mauritania Clearance PDF.pdf?inline=true
- Chicago
- Peace Research Institute Oslo. Getting Mauritania to completion. 2024. https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/f31a0f9c-07a4-4405-9208-902d5a533aff/Mauritania Clearance PDF.pdf?inline=true.
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- {{cite report |author=Peace Research Institute Oslo |title=Getting Mauritania to completion |date=8 July 2024 |url=https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/f31a0f9c-07a4-4405-9208-902d5a533aff/Mauritania Clearance PDF.pdf?inline=true |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}
- BibTeX
- @techreport{peaceresearchinstituteoslo2024getting, author = {{Peace Research Institute Oslo}}, title = {{Getting Mauritania to completion}}, institution = {Peace Research Institute Oslo}, year = {2024}, month = jul, url = {https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/f31a0f9c-07a4-4405-9208-902d5a533aff/Mauritania Clearance PDF.pdf?inline=true}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }
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