“There are places that I walk now that I remember being the roofs of houses when I was a kid.” Students talk in Chinguetti, Mauritania, on Feb. 4, 2025. Credit: AP/Khaled Moulay He remembers ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries ... are more frequently depositing inches and feet of dunes onto Chinguetti's streets and in people’s homes, submerging some entirely. Tree-planting ...

Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some ... in towns like Chinguetti. Mauritania's Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Agriculture as well as European-funded ...

An abandoned house sits in sand near Chinguetti, Mauritania on Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Moulay) An abandoned house sits in sand near Chinguetti, Mauritania on Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo ...

An Encroaching Desert Threatens to Swallow Mauritania’s Homes and History CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans ...

CHINGUETTI, Mauritania (AP) — For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a dozen libraries containing thousands of ...