Nouakchott

It was, I think, around 1 p.m. GMT.

That is the time of Nouakchott, Mauritania.

Mauritania is a country in North Africa.

And I was working, setting up service for a German organization called GTZ.

They have zero egos and zero judgments.

In Mauritania in 1996, I drove for 24 hours from Nouakchott, the capital, to visit Sheikh Marabat al-Hajj.

In 1937, he had walked across Africa from Mauritania to Sudan.

Then he took a boat to Saudi Arabia to perform the pilgrimage and visit God's Messenger in Medina.

These are called...

Okay, and by the way, another thing that happened to me was when I went there, got this video- I went back to my hotel, and I started editing in the hotel in the capital of Nouakchott in Mauritania, and I went and did a smug video saying, "I got it.

I got the castle." Little did I know, an organization called Atlantis Together had already been there.

They already did drone footage.

He goes to the medersas in Algeria, then he becomes a teacher in Mauritania, and he spends, I think, a decade or more there teaching.

Um, and his family stays, right? So the, the children that I met lived in, um, lived in Nouakchott and were willing to, very willing to talk to me about their, their dad.

Um, so he, like Ould Meouis, had this important impact on the schools where he taught, trying to, you know, recruit from the, the prominent families of the region.

I think he was maybe the most successful at doing that.

Mauritania's Prime Minister, Mokhtar Ould Djay, and his government have resigned after the Northwest African country was hit by power outages.

The move reportedly follows a scathing report on two electric facility fires in August that plunged parts of Nouakchott into darkness for several days.

The report by an independent commission outlined serious shortcomings regarding prevention, electrical protection, work supervision, and emergency management, and linked the issues to three newly installed electrical power lines.

And finally, East Coast Radio has been looking back over the last 30 years because of you who were there when KZN faced days of unrest in July 2021.

Doing great.

This time dialing in from Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, so still in the Sahara Desert, but visiting interesting companies here.

As an example, I went to a quartz mining company yesterday, so definitely an interesting country as well.

That's amazing.