Mauritania Archive

  • NYT: Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow

    NYT: Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow

    NYT: In Mauritania, lobsters vanished years ago. The catch of octopus — now the most valuable species — is four-fifths of what it should be if it were not overexploited. A 2002 report by the European Commission found that the most marketable fish species off...

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  • Dan Zhu, on Rosso, Mauritania

    Dan Zhu, on Rosso, Mauritania

    Dan says: Sometimes I get so caught up in Rosso that I start to think Rosso is Mauritania. What I’m trying to say is, sometimes I think the rest of Mauritania is just like Rosso. That, of course, is completely false. Rosso is the San...

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