Tanezrouft
…the Niger River with the Tidikelt, Touat and the Hoggar in Algeria. It is now spanned north–south by a trans-Saharan route from Béchar in Algeria via Reggane to Tessalit and Gao in Mali. During the colonial era Poste Maurice Cortier (also known as Bidon V, or 'oil drum 5') was a desolate refueling station…