A woman checks on the mint crop growing in her hydroponic garden

As a country straddling the divide between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritania has long been challenged by ethnic tension between Moorish northerners and black Africans, with one group frequently enslaving
the other. In the late 1980s, tensions were so high that 70,000 black Mauritanians were expelled from their country and settled in
Senegal and other neighboring countries. With the passage of another in a series of anti-slavery laws in 2007, these families have begun to return. IRD is helping them re-establish themselves.

Programs
Helping Families Resettle in Mauritania


Contact
Mahamane Moussa
Country Representative
Phone: +222 480 84 56
E-mail: mchano75@hotmail.com

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