Mauritania–Senegal Border WarMauritania / Senegal · 1989–1991“Listen well: this telling travelled far to reach our circle.”It began with herders and farmers quarrelling over grazing on the Senegal river — and within weeks, mobs in Dakar and Nouakchott were hunting each other's nationals, and both states were expelling people by the planeload, many to a country they had never lived in.