Sahel
A 3,000-mile (5,000 km) band of semi-arid country extending across Africa south of the Sahara desert, the Sahel zone ("the shore" in Arabic) passes through Mauritania, Senegal, M...
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Targets of new sanctions against Iran Thursday, according to a government fact sheet:_ The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The military vanguard of Iran. It runs prisons, and has numerous econom...
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U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocc...
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Rabat (dpa) - For a long time, Moroccans felt relatively safe from
the Islamist terrorism plaguing neighbouring Algeria, but that sense
of security is now definitively gone....
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Rabat (dpa) - For a long time, Moroccans felt relatively safe from
the Islamist terrorism plaguing neighbouring Algeria, but that sense
of security is now definitively gone....
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Tokyo (dpa) - Two goals from Filippo Inzaghi helped AC Milan to a
4-2 victory over Boca Juniors Sunday to add the Club World Cup to the
European title for the Italians.
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The first Security Council debate on climate change will focus on the impact of global warming on issues that can spark conflicts including border disputes and access to energy, water and food, Bri...
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Sana'a (dpa) - A Yemeni court on Wednesday convicted a journalist
of reprinting controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad
and fined him 500,000 riyals (about 2,5...
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Rebels in Niger's northern desert released six of the dozens of government soldiers they have held captive for more than a month to Libyan authorities, a Niger official said late Saturday.The rebel...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Floods are continuing to ravage an arc of African
countries from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa, washing away homes
and ruining crops and have been reported...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Torrential rains and menacingly high waters in
Niger have displaced landmines, sparking fears of explosions as the
risk of hitting one is increased, the Unit...
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Sahel
List: Sanctioned Iranian groups, people
