
Big is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is still practiced in some parts of the country.
For trade, humans overcame numerous obstacles--seas, deserts and mountains. First with rudimentary and then increasingly evolved means. By taming animals such as donkeys, horses and camels, humans were able to travel vast distances. When muscle power was no longer enough, oil and other types of ...
Eid al-Adha is a time of plenty and festivity for Muslims around the world. But in Mauritania, the crushing economic downturn and the country's political instability have left thousands of people with very little to celebrate and half of the population living in poverty. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall ...
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 in the 13th century, as the center of several trans-Saharan trade routes, this small threatened city continues to ...
Mauritania es un país con una extensión territorial inmensa en relación a la población que tiene. Mauritania ocupa el lugar #230 (de 239 países y otros territorios) de densidad, es decir, de personas por kilómetro cuadrado. Es un país que se encuentra en gran parte en del desierto del ...
El nuevo presidente de Mauritania Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz está empeñado en concreter un cambio real y desarrollar socialmente este árido país del norte de Africa. Uno de los principales problemas que debe enfrentar es el acceso a agua potable de la capital Nouakchott. Casi dos tercios de su ...