Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- Well, it was a new day, a new dawn and although I wasn’t exactly feeling like a new woman, I definitely felt better. The night before, Claire had woken me to tell me we were...
Written by dleannad on July 4, 2006
- While traveling to Nouakchott, Maritania from Dakar, Senegal by car, I did not know what to expect.First of all, we took a car that looked like a Hearst. I was the only female in the...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- So there you are, driving along admiring the beige and enjoying the smooth, new tarmac road when all of a sudden you have to pull out to avoid a row maybe four or five reasonably...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- At last we were well on the way to Nouadhibou and the border with Western Sahara. Of course we didn’t leave at the crack of dawn-even though we were up then, we didn’t leave until...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- Nouakchott is a very windy place apparently. In fact the name means something like ‘meeting of the winds’ or ‘place of the winds’ in Hassaniya, which is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Mauritania. In...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- I’d tried it in the truck cab, on a mattress on the floor of a large decorated tent and on a bench in the shade, but it didn’t matter – everywhere was just too hot,...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- As we drove out of Boutilimit, groups of boys in their brilliant white Koranic school robes waved enthusiastically at us. We waved back. It was a photograph I wouldn’t let myself take. Including police checkpoints...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- So we reached Ayoun el Atrous with Claire hungry enough to eat her own leg and me ready to trade my first-born for a truckload of drugs. I’m not usually one for praying but, as...
Written by HELEN001 on April 22, 2006
- Yes, I know Nioro is in Mali but the Mauritanian border post is there. I gather it’s been moved some time recently and before, once through the Malian border post, there was a sort of...
Written by kdieng on March 6, 2001
- Believe it or not, many Mauritanians do not know that "America" or the United States exists. An odd person may have traveled to the US or watched CNN, but that's about it. No...
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