In the eastern suburb of Alak city, the capital of Braknah in the center of Mauritania, over 300 families decided to set up clandestine camp when they left their homes in the inland areas due to the severe drought that hit the majority of the country in summer 2012.This natural disaster led to the death of livestock that constitutes the main source of sustenance for the villagers in the different eastern and southerngovernorates of Mauritania.

In the eastern suburb of Alak city, the capital of Braknah in the center of Mauritania, over 300 families decided to set up clandestine camp when they left their homes in the inland areas due to the severe drought that hit the majority of the country in summer 2012.This natural disaster led to the death of livestock that constitutes the main source of sustenance for the villagers in the different eastern and southerngovernorates of Mauritania.

On the eastern borders between Mauritania and Mali, specifically in the Mbera camp for Malian refugees, thousands of children live in difficult humanitarian conditions due to the ghost of illiteracy, which now haunts them as a result of the lack of a sufficient number of educational institutions on the one hand, and the conditions that force a big number of them to work at an early age to meet the family needs on the other.

Malian children in the M'berra camp are losing their lives in order that Islamists groups in North Mali keep fighting the governments of neighbouring countries. They have been recruited by the armed groups active in North Mali. They are killed during fighting or suicide attacks.