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Collateral victim of the fight against terrorism, Oualata dreams of emerging from oblivion
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Oualata, Mauritania.
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By: Mounia Daoudi Follow
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Like this innkeeper, Oualata longs for its visitors.
Since the former caravan city, located on the borders of south-eastern Mauritania, was classified at the end of the 2000s as a red zone, that is to say with a high terrorist risk, few tourists have come to get lost in its sandy streets.
Admittedly, Mali and its endemic violence are only a hundred kilometers away, but Mauritania has not experienced any terrorist acts for more than 10 years.
And if certain regions, such as Adrar in the center of the country, have gone into the orange zone, the city remains marked red, abandoned to its fate.
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