UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
19 December 2007
Some 400 km north of Nouakchott at the border with Western Sahara is the village of Boulanouar. Only the passing of trains transporting minerals out of the desert region disturb the peace and quiet of the cattle herders there. But beneath the sand lie deadly land mines, relics of a brutal desert war over the Western Sahara territory in the 1970s.
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