The North Africa expedition coincides with the beginning of the International Year of Deserts and Desertification and is aimed at furthering understanding between Europe and Africa.

Vogel is planning to set off on New Year’s Day from Timbuktu in Mali, following three years of preparation.

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Angolan officials are encouraged by the success of other African destinations and undeterred by enormous problems left behind by war and a failed courtship with Marxism.

At least six new four- and five-star hotels are planned on land confiscated by the government and nestled between the Mediterranean-style colonnades, arches and faded pastels of its old colonial architecture and the miles of squalid slums that stretch to the horizon in this seaside capital.

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