A Nation Plundered by a Minority… and Wept for by a Majority
A Nation Plundered by a Minority… and Wept for by a Majority
By: Mohamed Abdarahman Abdallah – Journalist
Nouakchott, Mauritania
In every corner of this nation, there is a muffled cry, a hidden tear, and sighs that find no one to listen.
Meanwhile, a small elite lives in their ivory towers, monopolizing wealth, hoarding power, and behaving as if the country were a private inheritance passed down through privileged families from one generation to the next.
It is a bitter reality: a nation plundered by a minority and wept for by a majority, where justice is absent, human dignity is trampled, and dreams are killed in their cradle.
Organized Plunder Without Shame
Corruption in Mauritania is no longer an exception—it has become the rule that governs political and economic life.
Resources are granted through top-down decisions, contracts are signed in the shadows, and jobs are handed out based on kinship and loyalty.
While a small minority enjoys influence and privilege, the vast majority of citizens face harsh realities:
Crippling cost of living
Poorly performing education system
Deteriorating healthcare services
Rampant youth unemployment
The country’s wealth is looted while the people are left stranded, chasing illusions and pacified by seasonal promises that never come.
The State Run Like a Private Estate
Political affiliation, tribal connections, and loyalty to individuals—not the nation—have become unwritten requirements for accessing rights.
State institutions are managed with a mindset of appeasement and favoritism, not competence or the principles of citizenship.
Thus, the state has been emptied of its essence and turned into a tool for consolidating soft authoritarianism.
It has become a country that serves those who hold power and wealth, not those who deserve justice and opportunity.
The Majority Weeps in Silence
In remote villages, marginalized neighborhoods, and overcrowded markets, millions of Mauritanians live lives unworthy of human beings.
Mothers giving birth in primitive conditions
Children dropping out of school due to poverty
Youth torn between migration and aimlessness
Civil servants stripped of dignity and hope for advancement
Patients treated as mere numbers in death queues
This majority—paying the price of silence and helplessness—asks for no miracle. It simply asks for a state that protects them, bread with dignity, and justice that doesn’t differentiate between a minister’s son and a poor man’s child.
The Human Cost of Plunder
Plunder does not only steal money—it steals time, kills hope, and distorts a citizen’s relationship with their homeland.
When people see hypocrisy rewarded, integrity sidelined, lies elevated, and truth crushed, the moral fabric collapses, and generations are born without trust or belonging.
The powerful minority has succeeded in monopolizing wealth—but failed to silence the collective pain.
This is not merely a financial or political crisis. It is a daily humanitarian tragedy.
A nation plundered by a minority and wept for by a majority is a nation threatened in its stability, the future of its children, and the dignity of its people.
There can be no salvation unless the silent rise, the voices of the suffering grow louder, and the state is rebuilt on the foundations of justice and equality—not the logic of spoils.
Will the day come when the tears of the majority are dried, the hands of plunder are cut off, and the nation is restored to all its children?
