A sand storm surprises Queen Letizia during her visit to Mauritania

A sandstorm has surprised Queen Letizia this Thursday in the middle of the desert, in Mauritania.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
02 June 2022 Thursday 04:44
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A sand storm surprises Queen Letizia during her visit to Mauritania

A sandstorm has surprised Queen Letizia this Thursday in the middle of the desert, in Mauritania. The Queen came to visit one of the projects that the Spanish cooperation develops in the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital, to create green spaces that generate CO2, and when she arrived she found a sandstorm.

It is the strongest storm that is remembered in the area in recent times, Foreign sources have reported, to the point that Letizia has chosen to put on a surgical mask and cover her eyes with sunglasses.

The project he is visiting, 17 kilometers from Nouakchott, is a 10-hectare plantation, divided into parcels for 130 families, in which they have begun to grow cereals and vegetables, for their own consumption but also with a view to marketing.

In this specific project, the EU assignment is part of the fight against climate change. If there is an area in which the alert due to the increase in temperatures is worrying, it is sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, Mauritania, in whose vast territory – twice that of Spain – the desert extends relentlessly.

The sandstorm is a common weather phenomenon in this area, but climate change increases the drought. The added drama of many of these African countries is that they are very vulnerable to its effects –droughts, heat waves, desertification–, despite the fact that they have not contributed substantially to global warming, precisely because they do not have the level of development of other countries that leave a larger carbon footprint.