Zakara

Zakara is a supporting antagonist of the 2005 comedy-adventure film Sahara based on the 1992 novel of the same name. He is an assassin who is in league with Zateb Kazim and Yves Massarde.

He was portrayed by Maurice Lee.

History
Zakara was first seen spying on Eva Rojas (a doctor working for the World Health Organization) investigating a disease spreading across Mali. To that end, he gets two thugs to help him capture her, though this was averted by the arriving treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, who finishes off the two thugs to their deaths. This forces an uneasy Zakara to escape, stealing away Eva's bag containing her report.

It is later revealed that Zakara was assigned by Massarde to spy on Eva and her team because Massarde has built a solar detoxification plant that dumps toxins into an underground river, which is causing the disease in the first place. After arriving to the plant with Dirk and his friend Al Giordino, Eva soon learns of a horrible revelation: Kazim has been allowing Massarde to dump the toxins into the underground river in exchange for profit, and the contamination would reach the Atlantic Ocean if not stopped, which would result a worldwide case of marine pollution.

However, Massarde lays out a trap on the trio, having Zakara to knock out Dirk and Al while keeping Eva as her prisoner. Massarde then attempts to deliver both Dirk and Alto Kazim, but the two escaped confinement, forcing an annoyed Kazim to gather his troops and search around the desert. Kazim also orders Massarde to destroy the plant with explosives to cover their tracks, which would make it impossible to stop the contamination from spreading out. Eventually, Dirk and Al allied themselves with Modibo to break into the plant and free the captured men. After letting Modibo and his men escape, Al steals away the explosives while Dirk engages into a fight with Zakara on the top of the plant's tower after saving Eva. Dirk manages to kick Zakara off the tower, leaving him to fall to his death crashing on one of the plant's mirrors.