Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some ... in towns like Chinguetti. Mauritania's Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture as well as European-funded ...

Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some ... in towns like Chinguetti. Mauritania's Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture as well as European-funded ...

“There are places that I walk now that I remember being the roofs of houses when I was a kid.” Students talk in Chinguetti, Mauritania, on Feb. 4, 2025. Credit: AP/Khaled Moulay He remembers ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP ... inches and feet of dunes onto Chinguetti's streets and in people’s homes, submerging some entirely. Tree-planting projects are trying to keep the invading ...

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 ...