Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1960, Republic of Mauritania yakava yakazvimirira yeFrance. Kurwisana pamusoro penzvimbo yekare yeSpanish yeWestern Sahara muna 1976 kwakaguma nekubatanidzwa kwechikamu neMauritania, yakabviswa mukufarira Morocco muna 1979. Mutungamiri wenyika kwenguva refu Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya akadzingwa nemauto eMauritania uye akatsiviwa neMasoja eKanzuru yeRuramisiro neDemocracy mu coup d'état muna 2005
. Bumbiro idzva rakagamuchirwa muna 2006. Sarudzo dzisina kutsunga muna 2007 dzakaita kuti pave neimwe kudengenyeka muna 2008. Mutungamiri wechiitiko chechiuto cha2005, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, akasarudzwa kuva mutungamiri wenyika muna 2009. Mushure memakore gumi ehutungamiri hwake, kukunda kwaMohamed Ould Ghazouani musarudzo dzemutungamiri wenyika yeMauritania muna 2019 kwakaratidzwa sekunge kwaive kwekutanga kushandura kwehurumende murunyararo munyika kubva parusununguko.