Ye, I'd certainly forget that idea for the future.
I eventually did track down the one shop that was supposed to do it, GAMA, where they seemed very professional and honest. It seemed too good to be true at 8,000 Ougiya for three months.
At the Senegal border I was told that this only covered Mauritania.
I think the guy who sold to me in Nouakchott genuinely thought it covered all of Africa, but it seems just about certain that it doesn't (I'm taing the word of the guy who sells it at the Senegal border, but his argument didsem convincing).
Long story short, it seems fairly certain that while you could as recently as six months ago, you can no longer buy Ecowas insurance in Mauritania.
And at 52 euro for three months in a very straight forward transaction at Diama (the easy Senegal/Mauritanina border), there's no good reason to try otherwise.
For what it's worth, nobody checked my insurance (or lack of it) in all of Mauritania
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