Chinguetti is one of four UNESCO World Heritage sites in Mauritania, a West African nation where only 0.5% of land is ...

An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be covered by the Sahara Desert CHINGUETTI, Mauritania -- For centuries ...

Such “green belts” have been proposed on a continent-wide scale as Africa's “Great Green Wall” as well as locally, in towns like Chinguetti ... there are still people convinced that ...

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 ...

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Leonardo Santos Simão, today concluded a visit to Mauritania. This ...

The tender call for the installation of a second submarine cable link to Mauritania was launched in August and has attracted two foreign firms and one local company.