{"id":43177,"date":"2026-04-30T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/30\/mauritania-sees-gold-rush-in-sahara-desert\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:03:04","slug":"mauritania-sees-gold-rush-in-sahara-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/30\/mauritania-sees-gold-rush-in-sahara-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritania sees gold rush in Sahara desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Despite fluctuations in its price, gold continues to fuel economies and often greed across Africa. Deep in the Sahara, in Mauritania, extraction sites are multiplying across the desert. In the past few years, this gold rush has\u00a0become a key pillar of the Mauritanian economy. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s\u00a0Sarah Sakho and Simon Martin report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite fluctuations in its price, gold continues to fuel economies and often greed across Africa. Deep in the Sahara, in Mauritania, extraction sites are multiplying across the desert. In the past few years, this gold rush has\u00a0become a key pillar of the Mauritanian economy. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s\u00a0Sarah Sakho and Simon Martin report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-43177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}