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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

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Sand Job” takes the presenters to the remote and little-viewed country of Mauritania, located in the northeast corner of Africa southwest of Algeria. Renamed Dakar, from 2009 to 2019 the race ran in South America. If you’re not about that, turn back now.) There’s simply no alcohol here, and we don’t speak any French!

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. Mali was a conflict zone, so he moved on to Algeria, but he lacked a work permit, and employers would underpay him or fail to pay him altogether. In 2019, human rights lawyers. But that was an unusual year.

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