Mauritania Desert Firefighters Mbera fire brigade members from the NGO SOS desert demonstrate the brushing technique used to extinguish fires in Mbera Refugee Camp, near Bassikounou, Hodh El Chargui ...

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 ...

MBERA, Mauritania — The men move in rhythm, swaying in line and beating the ground with spindly tree branches as the sun sets over the barren and hostile Mauritanian desert. The crack of the wood ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania — 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 manuscripts ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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, ...