The country code 222 (222 area code) belongs to:
Mauritania
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sex-obama-and-a-mauritani_b_408519
Hanevy Ould Dahah is an interesting case: educated in Mauritania's Qur'anic schools, he chose a path of rebellion and staunch liberalism, opposing the military coup and daring to return to Mauritania after a stint in the U.S., knowing full well how much the Mauritanian government despised him. He was arrested only a week after returning to Mauritania earlier this year.
U.S.-based Mauritanian civil rights activist Nasser Weddady expressed grave concern for Hanevy's case on his blog, stating:
"Hanevy's case is not just another blogger/journalist thrown away for political reasons. His is one that will have profound implications for the country: if [current Mauritanian ruler General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz] doesn't feel any push back for his treatment of a journalist, he is certainly going to assume that he is free to repress any dissenting voice without fear of any consequences. Let's say that this is THE test case for the future of civil rights in the tiny, often forgotten, nation of Mauritania."
So why should Americans care about Mauritania?
Mauritania is the only Arab country after September 11th that managed to hold a free and fair election (save for Lebanon, depending on your definition of "free and fair"), electing a president without a military invasion in 2007, only to be toppled by a coup a year later. U.S. policy in Mauritania, as with the rest of the Arab world, focuses on terrorism, ignoring the fact that Mauritania has become a dictatorship.
In fact, on December 23, just one day before Hanevy's sentence was to be completed, Obama added Mauritania to a list of sub-Saharan African countries eligible for preferential U.S. tariff treatment under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The U.S. remains silent about Hanevy's case, neither discussing it through the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott nor the State Department in Washington, D.C.