Alert: Land Confiscation in Mauritania

Abstract

Background: The local authorities in Mauritania are pursuing their dangerous project to take southerners' agricultural land. Fuuta, name of the region of southern Mauritania. covers a large portion of the band that part of the transition from the Sahara desert to what is commonly called Sub-Saharan Africa. Fuuta was once part of the Ghana Empire (8th Century) with its own kingdoms before falling in Mauritania, Senegal and Mali after French subdivided what they called French Soudan into the referenced three countries around 1900.