Locked between giants
December 9th 2008 A blistery wind front roars through the town, and the sky is blotted out with clouds of orange and grey. One could call it a dust storm, but any storm in the Sahara is worthy of that title. The wind merely lifts all the particulate that's always present into frenzy. Maybe you just don't see it until the storm.
The landmass of Western Sahara is a region sparsely populated but largely contested.
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