"The off-grid house uses the sun, the soil, and the water available." Architect shares incredible design of off-grid home ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by ...

Chinguetti is a historically important fortified city and medieval trading centre in northern Mauritania with a population of around 5,000.

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a ...