Some routes any routine mail service couldn’t and wouldn’t undertake. Day in and day out around the world.
The US Department of State ranks Mauritania as a Level 3 destination, out of four in its threat-level scale. As in: “Reconsider Travel.”
Good thing, then, that I’m traveling with that same State Department on this 12-hour desert journey, as a guest on the Diplomatic Courier Service’s current mission, transporting sensitive government materials between the US embassies in the capital cities of Dakar and Nouakchott. Our caravan consists of four gleaming white government vehicles: a Toyota Land Cruiser and Mercedes cargo van up from Dakar, along with two Toyota crew-cab pickups that meet us at the border. We’re on just one of thousands of such trips the service will execute this year as it delivers classified cargo, contained in tamper-proof orange pouches, to 270 US embassies and consulates around the world.
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