Mauritania is a launch point for Africans trying to reach the EU. One in five die on the crossing. When their bodies wash up, Abdul collects them...

Women are idealised if they have been married several times – but the relaxed attitude doesn't translate automatically into female empowerment

After months of protest, the kingdom’s disaffected youth retreated from the streets to online forums in order to express their fury at the regime – but the king’s men have followed them there

The west African country has attracted ecotourists for decades, but foreign extraction companies threaten its idyllic landscape