Mohamed Mahmoud on the roof of his Al-Hamoni family library, of which he is curator, in Chinguetti, Mauritania. Remi Benali / Corbis The Sahara is expanding southward at a rate of 30 miles per ...

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 ...

Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali On a recent afternoon, 67-year-old Saif Islam made his way into the courtyard ...

Chinguetti, a sacred site, faces climate change and heritage loss. Chinguetti, a historic and sacred site in Islam, holds immense cultural value with ancient manuscripts preserving knowledge in ...

In 1916, a French consular official reported finding a giant “iron hill” deep in the Sahara desert, roughly 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Chinguetti, Mauritania—purportedly a meteorite (technically a ...

Chingueṭṭi (Mauritania) (AFP) – Saif el Islam al Ahmed Mahmoud sat cross-legged on a sheepskin and gingerly turned the pages of an ancient manuscript. "What would the world be without poetry?" he ...

Oh, I went to Chinguetti not only for thatbut for other things also.Even one of the local chiefstold me, even if I wouldtry till the end of the,till the last judgement, that I would not find anything.

Perth-based Woodside Petroleum has cut its reserves estimate for the problematic $709 million Chinguetti oilfield project, off Mauritania, by about 57% to 53 million barrels of oil. This is almost ...

Ancient Egyptians believed the Sahara to be the Land of the Dead, and the sunset side of the desert was where one’s soul would find its final dwelling for the afterlife. It is no coincidence that the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Fresh problems have hit the $730 million Woodside Petroleum-managed Chinguetti oil project off Mauritania, with revelations that production difficulties will drastically cut output at least until the ...