Original sentence: Its members are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and recently, Mauritania.and the Sahara, the Maghreb has long been more closely connected in terms of climate, landforms, population, economy, and history to the Mediterranean basin than to the rest of Africa, although it has important historical ties to sub-Saharan Africa
Edited sentence: Its members are Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and recently, Mauritania, a non-Maghrebian, demograpahically non-Arab country.Mauritania, as a member of the Arab League, is generally included in a political context in the definition.and the Sahara, the Maghreb has long been more closely connected in terms of climate, landforms, population, economy, and history to the Mediterranean basin than to the rest of Africa