{"id":13531,"date":"2026-01-22T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/a-gift-from-heaven-the-tiktok-traders-of-mauritanias-meteorites-mauritania\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:42:12","slug":"a-gift-from-heaven-the-tiktok-traders-of-mauritanias-meteorites-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/a-gift-from-heaven-the-tiktok-traders-of-mauritanias-meteorites-mauritania\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A gift from heaven\u2019: the TikTok traders of Mauritania\u2019s meteorites | Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:500\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">B<\/span>y night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania\u2019s border with Morocco-occupied Western Sahara. By day, he twiddles his phone, checking TikTok and Facebook, which he uses to sell meteorites to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In this former French colonial garrison town, network signals come and go like the dusty wind. On a recent morning when the connection disappeared again and the Starlink at the local customs office was unavailable, he drove his silver Mitsubishi GLX to the town\u2019s outskirts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sitting cross-legged on a blue tarpaulin sheet under the shade of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/24\/tiktok-traders-mauritania-meteorites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By night, Lamine Hanoun works as a hospital guard in Bir Moghrein, near Mauritania\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1147,1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritania","category-1212"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}