The Dakar Rally (or simply “The Dakar”; formerly known as the “Paris–Dakar Rally”) is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris , France , to Dakar , Senegal , but due to security threats in Mauritania , which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally , events from 2009 to 2019 were held in South America .

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