Mayor Sadou Diallo misses residents of his desert town of Gao, most of whom fled to Bamako when militants took over.
Hemet is a dusty desert town, two hours east of Los Angeles.
Smack dab in the middle of Indian Country, it was founded in 1872 by Mormons who converted the Hopi leader for whom the Painted Desert town is named.
Back in September, when we named Johnny Depp the highest paid actor in Hollywood, I wrote that his most intriguing upcoming film was the animated Rango about a domesticated chameleon who winds up in the desert town of Dirt.
Lawson is now fighting off a budgetary collapse of this high desert town of 2, 100, where the paved and gravel roads have no traffic signals, only stop signs -- and even those are so faded from the sun that the village would like to replace them if it had the money.
Mines harvesting potash, a key ingredient for fertilizer, were closing, and Carlsbad seemed on the road to becoming another Chihuahuan desert ghost town.
During its golden age, Timbuktu was a thriving desert trading town at the heart of important trade routes for gold and salt, and a major intellectual and spiritual center, which played a key role in the spread of Islam in Africa.
Sporty travellers can also head to the Silent Arrow desert camp, 2.5km west of town, for a game of Desert Archery.
Much of the alleged abuse took place at the Gold Base, a Scientology outpost in the desert near Hemet, a town eighty miles southeast of Los Angeles.
The French-led operation in Mali has ousted the Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda's North African branch, from cities and town in the vast desert region they had captured a year ago in the wake of a coup.
Yasin Shahabuddin, 51, and his two younger brothers are among the more prosperous residents of Pipar, a small town in India's desert state of Rajasthan.
There were rocks everywhere, and scorpions and tarantulas and rattlesnakes, and vultures and no trees and not much water, and skinny dogs and donkeys, and ugly bad guys with guns and bullet vests who rode laughing into town to drink and shoot off their pistols and rifles, as if it were the Fourth of July, driving their horses all over town like dirt bikes on desert dunes.
On the short drive from town out to the salt flats, the high desert gleamed under the morning sun.
Masdar City sits in the desert about 10 miles outside of Abu Dhabi, a pioneer town for sustainability and urban design.
When a smuggler senses danger he can abandon the weakest members of the group, or desert them all, lying about the distance to the nearest town.
Heading inland again, 150km from Guerrero Negro towards the small town of San Ignacio, the landscape becomes more desert-like and some of the stranger desert plants, like the boojum tree, make an appearance.
The town sits smack in the middle of a USDA food desert stretching miles in every direction.
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Filming started in the wintry peaks of New Zealand's South Island, then moved to Cape Town in South Africa, then further north to the desert of Namibia.
Based a few kilometers outside the historic town of Timbuktu, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, the festival is inspired by the traditional gatherings of the region's Tuareg nomads.
Ninety miles north of my home town of Pocatello, Idaho, the Idaho National Laboratory squats in the desert.
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Big chains that desert High Streets in favour of larger regional outlets have also played a part in the decline of town centres.
More recently, the authorities tried to develop Bam by rebuilding the ancient town as a tourist attraction and by building a car factory on the edge of the desert.
The town of Ma'an is a two-hour drive south of Amman through the featureless Jordanian desert.
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