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(NOAA/GOES-19 via SWNS)

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite captured this multi-day time-lapse imagery of the dust blowing thousands of miles across the Atlantic from May 28th t…

The Meharists are part of Mauritania's National Guard

The unit is the modern-day heir to the camel-riding army patrols of the colonial period under France

The unit also helps the state establish its authority among nomadic tribes

The soldiers are now involved in the fight against jihadism in the vast deserts of eastern Mauritania

Other countries hit by Islamist violence in the Sahel have voiced an interest in Mauritania's approach

The mounted group recruits among the Bedouin