Background

Sahara Media Group is a Mauritanian enterprise that specializes in audiovisual productions. It was created in (1997), thus having a valuable ten year experience in this field. Its geographical areas of action are North and West Africa. The Group has all the necessary equipment for shooting and editing pictures, the handling of digital sounds as well as satellite transmission. Sahara Media Group issues the daily newspaper, Al Akhbar, which has become a reference among Mauritanian newspapers for the quality and relevance of the news it provides. In addition to that, Sahara Media maintains a website that updates news every minute of every hour. The website is called www.saharamedia.net.

In other area of activity, Sahara Media is investing as a technical and strategic partner in a project for the creation of the first private TV station in Mauritania. The project, which is finished on paper, awaits official permission to start broadcasting on local level and later on satellites.

The Group provides a wide range of services that revolves around the production of almost all news production items. The list of Sahara Media many prestigious partners includes:

-The Qatar-based Al-jazeera Satellite Channel

- Al-Hurra In USA

-Middle East News in Dubai

-APTN in London

-Dubai TV Station in Dubai

-France 24

-Abu Dhabi TV station in Abu Dhabi

The Group has created more than forty jobs to managerial employees, journalists and technicians. This team works in a spirit of excellence and hard work, each one for the optimal discharge of their own responsibilities. Sahara Media has as well created a Research Center for media resources and training in audiovisual methods and journalism. In all these occupations, Sahara Media is renown for self-sacrifice, impartiality, editorial independence and all the values cherished by journalism.