Kobenni (department)

Kobenni is a department of Hodh El Gharbi Region in Mauritania.

Subsistence farming and livestock rearing are the main economic activities in the Kobenni Department. Kobenni's population comprises various ethnic groups, including Moors (Arab-Berber), Fulani (Pular), Soninke, Bambara, and Tuareg communities. Approximately 49% of the department's inhabitants live below the poverty line, defined as earning less than $1.90 per day. Plasmodium falciparum malaria is endemic to the Kobenni department.