Mauritania






With a vast desert area, only 0.5% of Mauritanian territory is actually agriculturally feasible. Furthermore, inhabited principally by a nomad population, only 40% of its people reside in urban areas, which makes for a difficult access to basic necessities such as drinkable water or satisfactory sanitary conditions, even registering one of the worst rates in the world.

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