UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
22 October 2007
Since the 1970s, Mauritania's capital city has been growing explosively and today a million people call the scruffy, ramshackle city's collection of tin-roofed shacks and rough concrete buildings home. Nouakchott's sanitation system has not kept up with the demand, and the Mauritanian capital often looks more like an open garbage dump than the country's showcase city.
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