Education

Article 65 of Law No. 2022-023 only protects the right of Mauritanian children to be taught in their mother tongue. In the absence of a comprehensive national asylum law, this right does not extend to refugee and asylum seeker refugees. In primary school, scientific subjects are taught in the child's mother tongue but only if it is one of the recognized national languages (Poular, Soninké and Wolof). The primary language of education remains Arabic. 

However, refugee and asylum seeker children in M'berra camp continue to attend schools funded by UNICEF and UNHCR, under the supervision of the Mauritanian Ministry of Education, and to follow the national educational curriculum of Mali. While the lessons in class in the M'berra camp are still given in French under the Malian curriculum, the Mauritanian Government has committed to include all refugees into the national education system (2022-2032 Education and Training Sector Policy Letter). As a result, gradual inclusion is planned in the 2030 national education sector development plan (PNDSE III).