7 billion neighbors

What school reform in Mauritania?

Audio 48:30

photo taken during the recording of the program 7 billion neighbors at the cultural center of the Nouakchott region on May 17, 2022 © Romain Dubrac

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has made education a priority of his term.

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With less than 8% success in the baccalaureate in 2021, 872 missing classes, plus a shortage of teachers and school books, the stakes are indeed high.

Since 2019, certain projects have already been undertaken, such as the opening of a national consultation, the creation of priority education zones, the training and upgrading of teachers' salaries or the setting up of school canteens.

Much remains to be done to lay the new foundations of the Mauritanian republican school.

An essential point remains in particular the place given to the national languages ​​(Pulaar, Soninké and Wolof) which the last reform of 1999 had tried to revalue without success.

In this fragile context, 

Program recorded in Nouakchott, in public, at the cultural center of the Nouakchott region

With :

Ahmed Ba

, adviser to the Mauritanian Minister of Education, in charge of cooperation    

Bouna Sow

, director of the private school Noura, south of Nouakchott. 

Amadou Tidjane Ba

, Secretary General of the National Union of Secondary Education (SNES) 

Khoudia

, Mauritanian singer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Musical programming:

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- Khoudia

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 Taleb Latimore

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