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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: Public displays of nonaffection
Date: February 12th 2006
I don't like to quote the lonely planet, but this very much is. Car wrecks, flocks of camels and nomads dressed in layers of light, pale-indigo coloured cloth blowing in the wind; with six metre long pieces of cloth wrapped around their heads covering all but the sand blistered eyes.
Crossing the border into Mauritania is a glimpse of African bureocracy ... read more
Date: February 12th 2006
I don't like to quote the lonely planet, but this very much is
the landscape of MADMAX
