On Independence Day this year, Mauritanians paid more attention to the nomination of their national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations (CAF) finals than they did to the forgotten “soldiers [who] lay in solitude in anonymous pits ...
A ranar samun 'yanci na wannan shekarar, 'yan Mauritaniya sun mayar da hankali wajen zaɓen 'yan ƙungiyar wasa ƙwallon ƙafa ta ƙasa zuwa zagayen ƙarshe na gasar cin kofin nahiyar Afirka (CAF) sama da yadda suka yi ga "sojojin da aka manta da su [waɗanda] suke kwance cikin kaɗaici a wasu ɓoyayyun ramuka...