Alakhbar
Alakhbar is a Nouakchott-based Mauritanian online news agency publishing primarily in Arabic. Describing itself as the country's first independent news agency, it reports on national politics, society, security and the wider Sahel, and its dispatches are frequently picked up by regional and international media covering Mauritania.
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Is Alakhbar left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Alakhbar is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.
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