Mauritania is the latest country to restore diplomatic ties with Qatar, its Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday, more than two months after the Gulf states ended their yearslong row with Doha.
The West African country had followed Saudi Arabia and its allies Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt in severing ties with Qatar in 2017, accusing the gas-rich country of funding terrorism and growing too close to Iran and Turkey. The Qatari government has long denied supporting terrorist groups and refused to comply with the quartet’s demands for lifting their land, sea and air blockade, which included cutting ties with Iran and shutting down the Qatari-funded satellite news channel Al Jazeera.
