It is now tearing through the dunes of Lompoul -- one of the smallest and most beautiful deserts in the world -- a tourist ...

Amid a deafening din, the massive machine sucks up thousands of tons of mineral sands an hour, moving forward on an ...

Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal's vegetables are grown.