By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) -Double Dakar Rally motorcycle champion Sam Sunderland is gearing up to ride around the world in 19 ...

Two-time Dakar Rally Champion Sam Sunderland to attempt fastest circumnavigation of the world on a motorcycle crossing 15 ...

Dakar is all about the bike, the rider, and the support crew (if they're lucky). If you've been following the Dakar Rally in ...

The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities ...

Niger’s government said Thursday it would nationalize the Somaïr uranium venture operated by French company Orano and accused it of taking a disproportionate share of the uranium produced at the site.

Moroccan soldiers watch a biker pass the wall of sand separating Morocco and Mauritania in the western Sahara on the eighth leg of the 23d Paris Dakar rally 08 January 2001.

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Rallying Paris–Dakar the hard way with Marnie Brandenburg and her Porsche 911 At this year’s AfricaEcoRace, a handful of air-cooled Porsche 911s battled through the African savannah on the original, ...

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati became on Monday the first French official to make a formal visit to the Western Sahara, a sign of Paris's recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the ...

The Dakar Rally—often known simply as as The Dakar—still remains esoteric and impenetrable for competitors and fans alike nearly 50 years after the first running. Known initially as the Paris-Dakar ...

The 2025 Dakar Rally This year marks the 47th edition of the Dakar, and the sixth year of racing exclusively in Saudi Arabia. The race is just shy of 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from Bisha to Shubaytah.

The Dakar began in 1978 as a race from Paris across the Sahara to the Senegalese capital but switched to South America in 2009 for security reasons.