US President Donald Trump has said US-brokered normalisation deals are close between Israel and 'five or six' other Arab countries.
Critics see it as yet another example of official corruption in a country reeling from the August 4 explosion.
Mali's former president was toppled in a coup last month.
Social media users have responded angrily, claiming his religious rhetoric paves the way for Saudi Arabia to follow suit with the UAE and establish relations with Israel.
The reshuffle comes a day after prosecutors received a key report on the dealings of former head of state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.
Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, the last country to do so, but the practice remains deeply rooted in society.
The pandemic has caused an "unprecedented education emergency" with up to 9.7 million children affected by school closures at risk of never going back to class, Save the Children said.
The 1964 mass killings in Zanzibar and the slavery which preceded them highlight uncomfortable issues about Arab-African relations at a time when the world focuses on race.
The death of Droukdel - once regarded as Algeria's enemy number one - could leave AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) in disarray, sources have said.
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