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Africa Uncovered - Mauritania - Fat or Fiction

When it comes to the notion of female beauty, Nouakchot to day is a place of contrast to most other world capitals. On these streets it is a fat woman who turns heads - not a thin one. In Mauritania slim is not 'in' - but is force-feeding a justifiable practice to meet the local beauty standard?

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