Mauritania's new president Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani says education is the priority among his priorities at the start of the first school year since he took power (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Presidents of Mauritania and Senegal Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani and Macky Sall comment on the importance of the fight against jihadist groups in the Sahel (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Several hundred Gambians head home after a bus journey from Mauritania (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The city of Barra in Gambia is in mourning after at least 62 migrants travelling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania including 52 migrants from Gambia according to the Gambian presidency (Footage by AFPTV via...

At least 62 migrants travelling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania in the worst loss of life this year along the increasingly travelled western Atlantic migration route to Europe according to IOM the UN agency...

The ruling party in Mauritania meets in congress to elect a new government loyal to the new president Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani and to focus on the removal of his predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz from the political scene...

A parliamentary enquiry opens into alleged corruption and mismanagement of Mauritania's former leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz who left power last year after ten years in power (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

In Nouakchott, the authorities have requisitioned the major hotels in the Mauritanian capital to house people suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Mosques in Mauritania reopen after a week of no new coronavirus cases (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The Mauritanian presidency announces the formation of a new government after a parliamentary report linking former ministers to financial affairs of former leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has carried out a government reshuffle and replaced his prime minister, a day after prosecutors received a key report on the dealings of former head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz...

Former Mauritanian president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been released by police after undergoing week-long questioning over suspected embezzlement (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Floods fill the streets of Nouakchott, Mauritania after torrential overnight rains, leaving entire neighborhoods isolated and halting cars on the roads. Drivers are struggling to pick up clients, and informal-sector workers have resigned...

Taghioullah Aïda, one of the lawyers of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Mauritanian activist Mekfoula Mint Brahim reacts after receiving the Africa Award from the international NGO Front Line Defenders for human rights defenders at risk (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

After over ten years in exile, Mauritanian politician Moustapha Ould Limam Chafi returns home, where he is welcomed by friends, family and political supporters (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

A Mauritania state prosecutor has requested corruption charges against former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, and about ten other senior figures, after an investigation into his decade-long rule (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was on Tuesday jailed after a judge in charge of a corruption probe ordered his incarceration (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Ehya - whose real name AFP is withholding for his own safety – fled violence in the bush in central Mali and escaped to Mauritania's Mbera refugee camp in May (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Algeria. 1950s. MAN GATHERS CROPS IN ALGERIAN OASIS. SAND BLOWS THROUGH DESERT. CARAVAN OF CAMELS CROSSES DESERT. OASIS IN DESERTS AND BLOWS THROUGH DESERT. CARAVAN OF CAMELS CROSSES DESERT. OASIS IN DESERT

NORTH AFRICA: MEN CLIMB OFF TRAIN IN SAHARA DESERT. ROAD ACROSS SAHARA. CAR DRIVES ACROSS DESERT. WATER AND GASOLINE AT DESERT STATION.

NORTH AFRICA: HANDS SORT THROUGH DATES IN BASKET. FARM BY OASIS IN DESERT. VILLAGE IN DESERT OASIS

1950S, ALGERIA: WOMEN RIDE ON CAMELBACK TOWARD PALM TREE HORIZON. WOMEN RIDE CAMELBACK WITH GUIDES ALONG DESERT LANDSCAPE. WOMAN WALKS FROM VILLAGE CLEARING WHERE PEOPLE, DOG MILL ABOUT.

BUILDING IN SAHARA DESERT. TRUCK DRIVES ACROSS DESERT. TRAIN IN DESERT. PLANE IN DESERT