I wrote the first English-language guidebook to one of the world’s most obscure countries

Mauritania, Africa’s 11th largest country, remains a blank spot on all but the most die-hard of travellers’ maps, but that ...
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The incredible 2-mile African train with 200 carriages that's one of the world's longest

Crossing the desert in northwest Africa is the incredible Mauritania train, also known as the iron ore train, whose carriages extend so far into the distance that they disappear from view. The ...