SAHEL

The ground around the house is completely dry and cracked like the land in the Sahel Desert during the drought.

He had come to the Sahel from Australia four years earlier with his wife and infant son (they would have three more children in Africa).

Within a year, the United States and its allies had transformed the Sahara-Sahel region into a second front in the global "war on terror. "

Plainly, fighting terrorism or hostage-taking in the Sahel is a different sort of intervention.

The Sahel would be turned into a desert by the soaring population of west Africa.

In 2012, there was a very serious food crisis, which affected all the Sahel countries, including those where refugees are now hosted.

El Para was proof that "terrorism" was far from eradicated in Algeria and that Islamic militancy now linked the Maghreb and Sahel.

We sat beneath a large tree known as the "Apple of the Sahel, " whose twigs sported inch-long thorns.

It might be in Holland or Israel, southern Spain or someday, perhaps, the Sahel.

Humanitarian workers are keeping a close eye on the eastern Sahel region as tens of thousands of migrant workers return home from Libya.

The importance of cotton in this country, located in the heart of the Sahel, can't be under-estimated.

The statement said foreign companies exploiting the natural resources of the Sahel are legitimate targets of Muslim freedom fighters.

It is well known that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is operating across the Sahel from Mauritania to Algeria, Niger and Mali.

Armies in the Sahel, that wide stretch of land just south of the Sahara, have increasingly often clashed with Islamist fighters.

Tappan had spent more than twenty years documenting land use and vegetation in the Sahel with satellite images and aerial photographs.

Those were specific to Darfur, whereas the sharp drop in rainfall hit the whole Sahel, without intensifying conflict elsewhere.

Security forces in Africa's Sahel region are on high alert following last month's killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

The winter planting season, starting end May, early June, will soon be upon us in the Sahel. It lasts three months on average.

Analysts speak of worries that al-Qaida activity in North Africa and the Sahel could spread to northern Nigeria and affect the UK.

A lot of trees are dying in Africa's Sahel region, and a new study says climate change caused by humans is to blame.

This study addresses the lack of demographic data on mobile pastoral communities in the Sahel.

The harvests in the Sahel region of West Africa have been severely damaged.

In the past twenty-five years, farmers in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have reforested vast stretches of the Sahel.

The Sahel has been degraded by human use, not natural desertification; the natural process has been the reverse.

One area of concern is the Sahel, a vast semi-arid area south of the Sahara desert.

But in most of the Sahel the old colonial system of government control continues.

In the Sahel, he said, local people planted 200 million trees between 1975 and 2003, regreening 5 million hectares of land.

Also added to the sanctions list were Rah Sahel and Sepanir Oil and Gas Engineering Company, Treasury said.

The study blames the climate change in the Sahel on motor vehicle and power plant emissions and other human activity over the years.

Ischnomantis gigas is the largest mantis with 17 cm length in the female and is found in the Sahel zone of Africa.

Elsewhere in the Sahel, five French hostages are still being held.

The Sahel had manpower but no money; Oman had money but little manpower.

The dry plains of the Sahel are mostly treeless .

In the past sixty years, populations in the Sahel have more than quintupled.

Just south of the Sahara we find the Sahel.

We're already seeing the first climate wars, in the Sahel belt of Africa.

But Jackson points out that tree plantations have also benefited regions such as Africa's Sahel, where trees can improve water quality.

The Sahel, the Indus Valley, and China didn't see a cool spring the way other areas did.

Because the Sahel region gets much less rain than it did a century ago, farmers in Mali are moving to the cities.

Another was mass migration, from the Sahel to greener countries to the south, such as Nigeria and Ivory Coast.

Over the years, an agricultural adviser named Tony Rinaudo has helped people in the Sahel learn about the value and care of trees. Mr.

In the Sahel, the situation is reversed.

Last year Mr Sarkozy said it was "not a strategy" for France to pay ransoms to kidnappers in the Sahel, or even to negotiate with them.

For example: Japanese encephalitis, epidemic meningitis in the Sahel, even sustaining delivery of old vaccines like yellow fever.

And they can fund, at very low cost, the grassroots information sharing that has spread FMNR so effectively in the western Sahel.

Countries in and around the Sahel

Convention Establishing a Permanent Inter-State Drought Control Committee for the Sahel;

Prospects for improved seasonal predictions of monsoon precipitation over Sahel

IGOSS; Integrated Grasslands Management Training Programme in the Sahel;

Retrieval of land surface parameters in the Sahel from ERS wind scatterometer data: a "brute force" method

INSAH; Sahel Regional Financial Management Project;

Mesoscale Convective System Rainfall in the Sahel

The French government has new African worries in the Sahel

Inter-state Committee on Drought Control in the Sahel;

Sahel and Sahara States Grouping;