In a country that combines state-driven modernization with deeply rooted tribal structures, descent-based slavery remains a ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...

Morocco handed over 100,000 liters of pesticides to Mauritanian authorities on Monday in Nouakchott’s outskirts to support ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, ...

Mauritania’s Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture as well as European-funded NGOs have floated projects to plant trees to insulate the city’s libraries and manuscripts from the incoming ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...