Mauritania
Mauritania At A Glance
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Directing HQ: Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 2007
Beneficiaries (2009): 20,567 people
Institutional Funders: AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation), ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid), EU, Government of Navarre
Launch Date: 2007
Beneficiaries (2009): 20,567 people
Institutional Funders: AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation), ECHO (European Commission Humanitarian Aid), EU, Government of Navarre
Press Contact
Carlos Riaza
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
Mauritania, Niger and Mali together make up the Sahel region, a semi-desert strip of land in the southern Sahara. Due to its geographic location, the country's population of three million inhabitants is divided between Arab Berbers in the north and Black Africans in the south. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, yet paradoxically since 2006 it is also an oil-exporting country. With vast tracts of desert, only 0.5% of Mauritanian soil can be used for agriculture, and water sources are extremely scarce: 47% of the population has no access to drinking water.
