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Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. ... [read more]
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. ... [read more] Blog: desert kingdom orientation
Date: January 14th 2009
desert kingdom orientation Mauritania, for those who don’t know (and I know many outside do not) is a large, mostly unpopulated country on the West Coast of Africa. It hovers like a pause, a broken sentence, in between Arab Morocco and Black Senegal. It is here that the unrelenting Sahara gives way into the scrubby Sahel, where Orthodox Islam confronts mystic Marabout brotherhoods, where the ... read more
Date: January 14th 2009
desert kingdom orientation Mauritania, for those who don’t know (and I know many outside do not) is a large, mostly unpopulated country on the West Coast of Africa. It hovers like a pause, a broken sentence, in between Arab Morocco and Black Senegal. It is here that the unrelenting Sahara gives way into the scrubby Sahel, where Orthodox Islam confronts mystic Marabout brotherhoods, where the ... read more
