title: 2018 in Mauritania
text: # 2018 in Mauritania
  
  Events in the year 2018 in Mauritania.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
  * Prime Minister: Yahya Ould Hademine (until 29 October); Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir (from 30 October)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1 and 15 September – 2018 Mauritanian parliamentary election
  * 30 October – Mohamed Salem Ould Béchir took over as prime minister, following the resignation of his predecessor, Yahya Ould Hademine, and his government
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 15 January – Moussa Diagana, writer (b. 1946).
  * 17 July – Murabit al-Hajj, Islamic cleric and scholar (b. c.1913).
  * 11 September – Cheikhna Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister.
  