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Mauritania: Camel corps patrols Sahel desert

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Maria Gerth-Niculescu | Marco Simoncelli
December 14, 2023

The Meharistes patrol desert regions on camelback, preventing jihadi ideologies from gaining a foothold in remote communities in the Sahara.

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