Mauritania Edition

April 1, 2030

Apr Fool's Day leads today's complete edition for Mauritania.

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Monday, April 1, 2030

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Apr Fool's Day — World Calendar Day
World Calendar Day

Apr Fool's Day

The day of pranks is celebrated in Liberia with the same enthusiasm as everywhere else, and the pranks range from the harmless to the elaborate. The Liberian English phrase for the day is "April Fool day," and the tradition is to play tricks on friends and family before noon. The radio stations broadcast fake news, the newspapers publish fake stories, and the social media is a minefield of misinformation. The Liberian sense of humor is sharp, and the pranks are creative. The most common prank is telling someone their car has been towed or their phone is ringing when it is not.

Poisson d'Avril — World Calendar Day
Regional/Cultural Day

Poisson d'Avril

The tradition of April Fool's is observed with pranks and fake news, and Mauritanians are creative : the best pranks involve the desert. The Sahara is always a topic of conversation, and the most convincing pranks involve claims of rain, flooding, or the discovery of water in an unlikely place. In the fishing communities of the Atlantic coast, the prank tradition has a twist: the Imraguen fishermen, who use hand-thrown nets from wooden pirogues, sometimes pretend to pull in a massive catch only to reveal it's a tangle of seaweed.