At the UN General Assembly Special Session on Preventing and Combating Corruption, Justice Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Abdoullah Ould Boye stressed that defeating corruption requires a real fight. For Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Abdoullah Ould Boye, corruption is considered one of the most serious challenges facing countries in general and developing countries in particular. It states that it poses a threat to democracy and the rule of law.

Makeen has recently reviewed national mechanisms in the direction of their modernization and development in line with the imperatives of preventing and combating corruption by ratifying international and regional anti-corruption conventions and including its requirements in national legislation. Mauritania is also actively participating in the revision processes of the United Nations Convention against Corruption, as it has completed the first cycle of the review, while a government team composed of various sectors concerned with the fight against corruption is continuing the self-assessment process with a view to completing the second review cycle. To fill the legislative and institutional gaps, and to deal with the various financial aspects related to corruption crimes, the national legal arsenal has been strengthened with an anti-corruption law and a new anti-money laundering and terrorist financing law, which is Law No. 017 of 2019.

" The institutional measures taken by the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have made it possible to introduce fundamental reforms in the structures of anti-corruption bodies, by revising their competences, granting them broad powers in terms of access to information, freezing and seizure, and the protection of witnesses and whistleblowers to promote the detection of corruption offences," the minister said. Nevertheless, he finds that anti-corruption efforts will remain limited in results unless work continues unabated in the fight against corruption and bad governance.