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The man on a mission to save Mauritania’s ‘city of libraries’ from encroaching desert sands
Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring MaliOn a recent afternoon, 67-year-old Saif Islam made his way into the courtyard of a library in Chinguetti, a tiny desert settlement …