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Mauritania

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  • Ksar migrant prison in Nouakchott, the largest in Mauritania. Photo by Fundación porCausa Foundation
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    Border Externalization: Spain Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania

    Through the development agency FIAP, the Spanish government is launching two migrant detention...

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    Cárcel de migrantes de Ksar, en Nouakchott, la más grande de Mauritania. Foto: Fundación porCausa
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    PART OF: Border Externalization: Spain Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania

    The Questions FIAP Fails To Answer About Spain’s Migrant Prisons in Mauritania (Spanish)

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    November 5, 2025
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    PART OF: Border Externalization: Spain Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania

    Spain’s Government Opens Two Migrant Detention Centers in Mauritania (Spanish)

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    November 5, 2025
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    PART OF: The New Extractive Regime

    Gold Fever in the Coup Belt: The Mines of Mauritania

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    James Pogue
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    July 18, 2024
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    PART OF: The Rampant Exploitation of Mauritania’s Octopus Fishery

    Octopus Famine Threatens World’s Largest Artisanal Cephalopod Fishing Powerhouse (Spanish)

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    January 19, 2024
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    PART OF: The Rampant Exploitation of Mauritania’s Octopus Fishery

    Should We Eat Octopus? (German)

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    December 8, 2023
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    PART OF: The Rampant Exploitation of Mauritania’s Octopus Fishery

    The Long Tentacles of a Business (Serbian)

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    November 9, 2023
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  • Octopus fishery in Nouadhibou, Mauretania
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    The Rampant Exploitation of Mauritania’s Octopus Fishery

    In Nouadhibou, Mauritania, over 7,000 boats are fishing for 350 millions dollars of octopus...

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    The common octopus. Image by Vladimir Wrangel/Shutterstock.
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    PART OF: The Rampant Exploitation of Mauritania’s Octopus Fishery

    Caught in Mauritania and Eaten in Japan, the Common Octopus Is Being Fished Out

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    November 7, 2023
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Saharan Dust and Shared Science

    Climate Reporting That Connects The Saharan Connection and Lessons From Senegal project takes...

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    Steve Sapienza
    Pulitzer Center Staff
    July 28, 2023
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    Pulitzer Center Update

    Behind the Story: 'The Saharan Connection'

    Pulitzer Center grantee Tony Bartelme lives in Charleston, South Carolina, but his environmental...

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    Alexandra Byrne
    Pulitzer Center Alum
    July 19, 2023
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    PART OF: The Saharan Connection and Lessons From Senegal

    Will Hurricanes Hammer the East Coast? We Traveled to the Sahara Desert To Find Answers.

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    June 23, 2023
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