School helps migrants in Mauritania; can it keep them from leaving for Europe?

FILE - Boys sit in a classroom at Nouadhibou's Organization for the Support of Migrants and Refugees, Mauritania, Jan. 7, 2025.

Eager students from throughout west Africa raise their hands as teachers guide them through math and classical Arabic. Then they race outdoors to meet their parents, who clean houses, drive informal taxis or gut sardines in Chinese factories.