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Tourists back on board Mauritania's desert train

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After a ten-year hiatus for security reasons, a train carrying tourists across the Sahara desert in Mauritania has reopened. France has lifted a ban that prevented its citizens from travelling to the region. Our France 2 colleagues followed one retired couple who took up the challenge.

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