Authorities in Mauritania have renewed calls for artisanal ... some miners continue to cross into Moroccan-controlled buffer zones in Western Sahara in pursuit of gold. These actions raise the ...

people ride it — because in some parts of Mauritania, this is the only affordable way to travel long distances. The train begins its journey in Zouérat, a town near the Western Sahara border ...

The officers, vessels and other surveillance assets deployed by the agency assist the national authorities with border surveillance and search ... Migrants depart mainly from Morocco, Western Sahara, ...

So why does Western Sahara matter? When the European powers divided up Africa in the late 19th century Spain became master of this vast area of mainly desert land, stretching from Algeria to the ...

BIR MOGHREIN, Mauritania — You may have seen a meteorite before ... when he was with a team digging for gold near the Algerian border. As he took a smoke break, “a stone that was darker than the ...