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The exiles, who hang paintings of their activist heroes at Chagos Refugees Group headquarters in Pointe aux Sables and slap down dominoes outside of the Chagos Boutique in Tombeau Bay, have tried to fight back.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Dancers, drawn from 14 countries across Africa, rehearsing “Rite of Spring” at L’Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialao, a fishing village outside of Dakar, Senegal, in November.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2023

As an avid hiker who had run several marathons — including the 140-mile Marathon des Sables through the Sahara in Morocco, one of the world’s most difficult races — Chandi knew some things about endurance.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

Having climbed Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Elbrus in Russia, and completing the Marathon des Sables, he was "looking for an adventure".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2019

At Sables were four thousand three hundred infantry, two hundred and fifty cavalry, and three hundred artillery.

From No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee by Wood, Stanley L.