Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three...
10 October 2001
In Nouadhibou, Mauritania's main fishing port, a group of angry fisherman are protesting. Last night, one of the local fishing boats, a pirogue,...
Chinguetti la bibliothèque du désert
Chinguetti (Arabic: شنقيط) is a ksour or ancient trading centre in northern Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar.
Founded...
