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536 words, approx. 2 pages 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, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and the Cape Verde... summary from source:
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427 words, approx. 1 pagessemiarid region of western and north-central Africa extending from Senegal eastward to The Sudan. It forms a transitional zone between the arid Sahara (desert) to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south. The Sahel stretches from the... summary from source:
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116 words, approx. 1 pagesSemiarid zone, western and north-central Africa. Extending from Senegal eastward to The Sudan, it forms a narrow transitional band between the arid Sahara to the north and the humid savannas to the south. Beginning in the late 20th century, it was... summary from source:
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The Sahel (from Arabic ساحل, sahil, shore, border or coast of the Sahara desert) is a semi-arid tropical savanna ecoregion in Africa, which forms the transition between the Sahara desert to the north and the more fertile region to the south, known... 
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 Anthropological Quarterly Sahel: The End of the Road
01/01/2006: 1,057 words, approx. 4 pages Sebastião Salgado, Sahel: The End of the Road. Berkeley: University of California Press, October 2004. Whichever way you approach it, this is a deeply affecting book. You may well feel a sinking sensation in the pit of your stomach, like heavy turbulence. You... summary from source:
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Land use and the Sahel drought
12/01/2002: 354 words, approx. 1 pages Our modeling studies suggest that land use change was not the principal driver of the prolonged recent African Sahel drought. For the first time, a realistic scenario of Sahelian land use change was used to assess the sensitivity of an atmospheric model to land... summary from source:
 AP News List: Sanctioned Iranian groups, people
10/25/2007: 356 words, approx. 1 pagesTargets 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 economic interests involving defense production, construction, and the oil industry._ Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces... summary from source:
AP News Al-Qaida's new African alliance eyed
6/10/2007: 1,086 words, approx. 4 pagesU.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 Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.The centerpiece of terrorism problems in the region is Algeria's...
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