A green space built on a former rubbish dump opened on Tuesday evening, October 13, in Nouadhibou's Baghdad neighbourhood, according to the Mauritanian News Agency. The foundation of the National Industrial and Mining Company, SNIM, financed the work in cooperation with the regional environment and sustainable development delegation.
The regional environment delegate said about 200 trees of different species had been planted at the site. Its conversion into a public space is part of a city clean-up campaign that also covers roads and land alongside the railway.
The work included removing sand from nine kilometres of secondary roads, repairing 15 kilometres of railway protective fencing and collecting and removing waste from a 15-kilometre strip alongside the tracks, the agency reported. A SNIM foundation official said this work had been completed.
Residents quoted by the agency welcomed the removal of the dump, whose smells and harmful effects they had complained about, and called for the new space to be preserved and guarded.
