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Mauritania’s cabinet on Wednesday adopted a decree applying the country’s new public-procurement code, the law of 10 June 2026 on how the state buys goods and services. The decree would create a Public Procurement Regulatory Authority, a Public Procurement Control Commission and procurement commissions, and would require procurement officials to be regularly certified and their commissions’ performance tracked.
The government says the rules are meant to reduce corruption risks by requiring declarations of assets and interests and gradually moving tendering online, and to check delivery through a “final settlement file” of documents showing that work was done as ordered. It also says it wants to shorten contract delays and encourage “national preference”, greater access to public contracts for Mauritanian firms. Putting the rules into practice, and any effect on corruption, lies ahead.