We gratefully acknowledge the work of the photographers featured on our banner images. These beautiful photos of North Africa and nearby areas were published on Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons or GPL Documentation licenses:

• Dead Sea Sunrise by Grauesel
• Levé du Soleil – Dunes de Merzouga – Erg Chebbi by Nomadz
• Lalla Khadidja enneigé by Yelles
• Littoral algérien (public domain)
• Le levé du soleil – Borj Erras – Mahdia by Seif Allah Bouneb
• Sunrise over Mt. Sinai by Mark Southron
• Roque de los Muchachos by Luc Viatour
• Sunrise coast La Palma (Spain) by Luc Viatour
• Sunrise up with camels near Nuweiba by Florian Prischl
• Sunset over Lake Nasser by Dennis G. Jarvis (“archer10”)