Mauritania–Senegal relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Mauritania–Senegal relations', '<entity_1>': 'Mauritania', '<entity_2>': 'Senegal'}
[['Mauritania–Senegal relations', 'country', 'Mauritania'], ['Mauritania–Senegal relations', 'country', 'Senegal']]
<entity_0> are the foreign relations between <entity_1> and <entity_2>, two neighbouring countries in West Africa. In the years following independence, <entity_1>'s principal friend in sub-Saharan Africa was <entity_2>, although the two countries have espoused different strategies for development. The growing split between blacks and Maures in <entity_1> has, however, affected ties with <entity_2>, which sees itself as championing the rights of <entity_1>'s black minority. In May 1987, <entity_2> extradited Captain Moulaye Asham Ould Ashen, a former black member of the Haidalla government accused of corruption, but only after veiled threats from Nouakchott that failure to do so would result in <entity_1>'s allowing Senegalese dissidents a platform from which to speak out against the government of President Abdou Diouf. At the same time, <entity_2> and <entity_1> have cooperated successfully with Mali under the <entity_2> River Development Office (Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du Fleuve Sénégal—OMVS), which was formed in 1972 as a flood control, irrigation, and agricultural development project.
['bilateral relation']