MAURITANIA: Sharing to survive

MAURITANIA: Sharing to survive:

DJOKE/GORGOL, 17 July 2012 (IRIN) - The fragrance of cooking food wafts from a communal kitchen as the villagers of Djoke, in the Gorgol region of Mauritania, talk about how hunger and drought took them by surprise. Gorgol, Brakna and Assaba form the Triangle of Poverty, where at least 60 percent of the population live on less than one US dollar a day. "We did not even know the rains were going to fail us [in 2011], we did not receive any warning," said Sao Moussa, a village elder.