A dark year for the fishing village of N'Teirift

The year 2014 will undoubtedly have been one of the darkest in the history of the fishing village of N'Teirift. Located about sixty kilometres north of Dakhla, N'Teirift suffered a fire on 27 March that ravaged more than 300 shacks. Today, the some 3,000 inhabitants of this fishing village are suffocating. Who can imagine a village of more than 3,000 souls without hygiene services and without rubbish collection for more than 5 months? The last time a semblance of rubbish collection was seen in this village was two days after the tragedy last March. In reality, the collection had concerned what the flames had spared, rather than the rubbish scattered here and there in the various alleys bordering what remained of the burnt-out huts. Some justify the absence of collection by the expiration of the contract with a cleaning company. The new delegated company is currently completing the numer…