Lone Cafe on the Cassa-Dakar Highway.

That's me at the Cafe on the Cassa-Dakar Highway near Chami. This petrol pump cum cafe in the only place to get diesel and food between in 500 km desert stretch from the Morrocan border to the Mauritanian Capital Nouakchott. This is one of the most important road in the world. This is the only paved which connects the North Saharan Africa to the Sub Sahran Africa. So it’s the only paved road which crosses the Sahara. The Cairo-Dakar Highway project in the Trans-African Highway network also passes through Mauritania, and has recently been paved between the capital Nouakchott and the Moroccan border, work on which began in 2006.
The Cairo–Dakar Highway is Trans-African Highway 1 in the transcontinental road network being developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the African Development Bank (ADB), and the African Union. The major part of the highway between Tripoli and Nouakchott has been constructed under a project of the Arab Maghreb Union. It has a length of 8,636 kilometres (5,366 mi) and runs along the Mediterranean coast of North Africa, continuing down the Atlantic coast of North-West Africa. It joins with the Dakar-Lagos Highway to form a north-south route between Rabat and Monrovia across the Sahara and around the western extremity of the continent. But the only issue is that the land border between Morocco and Algeria is closed currently completely, so the Cairo–Dakar Highway cannot be used in its entirety. That’s why I couldn’t travel by road from Senegal to Egypt, otherwise it that would have been one hell of an adventure car drive.