An appeals court in Mauritania handed down a 15-year prison sentence and a $3 million fine to former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday.

Hama Sidi Othaman holds up a suspected meteorite in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, on Jan. 29. A self-styled meteorite broker, Sidi Othaman says he has been hunting for meteorites since 2011.

In a photograph from Nouakchott, Mauritania, hundreds of small fishing ... Both are on view in his photo of the soybean harvest at Fazenda Piratini, Bahia, Brazil, where rows of crops vanish ...