The stunning city of poets and scholars that’s vanishing into the desert
The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of manuscripts, is facing an existential threat from the encroaching desert.
An encroaching desert threatens to swallow Mauritania’s homes and history
For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a ...