Le Calame
Le Calame is an independent French-language weekly newspaper published in Nouakchott since 1993. Long associated with critical commentary on Mauritanian public life, it offers political reporting, analysis and opinion columns, and its website carries the weekly's articles, making it a reference for francophone readers following Mauritanian politics.
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Is Le Calame left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists Le Calame as Center within Mauritania's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.
Read Le Calame beside another title from Mauritania and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two Mauritania dailies covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are Le Calame's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Le Calame is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning Mauritania title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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