The eerie silence of the Sahara is broken by the chugging of the giant serpent as it crawls through the vast empty desert space. This iron giant stretches an incredible 2.5 kilometres from engine to caboose. With 200 carriages rumbling along its length, the train hauls enough iron ore each trip, nearly 9,000 tons, to…
The ruling party in Mauritania has won a landslide victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday The results were not a suprise. The El Insaf ruling party was expected to win in a field of 25 parties in a country with just1.8 million voters. Read more.
Authorities are searching for a group of “terrorists” who escaped prison. Mauritania has largely been unscathed by the Islamist terrorism that has affected its neighbors in the Sahel region. Four jihadist prisoners escaped from prison in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott on Sunday night, killing two guards in the process. Two other guards were wounded during a gunfight that…
