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/ 21 February 2007
Caught between an encroaching sea of sand and a towering rocky plateau, Tichit has been a staging post for more than nine centuries for camel caravans snaking across the Sahara. Isolated in the most inhospitable part of south-eastern Mauritania, the crumbling buildings of the once-prosperous town are relentlessly buffeted by winds.
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/ 15 January 2007
South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers maintained his stranglehold on the Dakar Rally on Sunday when he took victory in the eighth stage. Race leader De Villiers, driving a Volkswagen, finished ahead of French Mitsubishi pair Stephane Peterhansel and Luc Alphand on the stage from Atar to Tichit.