On Tuesday, Mauritania and its partly government-run ore mining company, SNIM, reported that they expect to make 13 million tons of iron ore in 2014. That's a lot of iron. A majority of the iron ore ...

"Hop on board the 'Backbone of the Sahara' with filmmaker Macgregor for an incredible journey through the stunning Western Saharan landscape." Wow. Every shot in this is absolutely jaw-dropping. This ...

Mauritania isn’t typically a major tourist destination. But its only railway has recently become the subject of a viral TikTok travel trend: riding the “Iron Ore Train.” This 437-mile journey through ...

The agreement will facilitate infrastructure upgrades along the route connecting Zouerate, an iron ore mining hub, to Nouadhibou. Credit: Sergey-73/Shutterstock.com. The European Investment Bank (EIB ...

A British photographer spent 14 hours riding an open-top train as it transported 16,000 tones of iron ore across the Sahara desert. Michal Huniewicz, 31, documented the 700-kilometre journey across ...

British photographer Michal Huniewicz spent 14 hours riding an open-top train as it transported 16,000 tonnes of iron ore across the Sahara desert. Picture: Michal Huniewicz / Barcroft Media Credit: ...

'Travelling under the starry sky across the Sahara Desert is hard to forget. 'The feeling of your life depending solely on the train as you are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest village.

When planning a honeymoon, many couples go for obvious destinations like Paris, the city of love, or the Maldives, with its stunning azure waters. Few, unlike Croatian newlyweds Kristijan and Andrea ...

August 4, 2007 (NOUAKCHOTT) — Sudan’s Danfodio Holding and China’s Transtech Engineering have signed an agreement to build a 460 million euro ($634 million) railway linking Mauritania’s capital ...

After a 10-year hiatus, the desert train in Mauritania is up and running, taking tourists to places once forbidden. The line in Northwest Africa stopped due to safety reasons but has restarted and ...