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■ SAHEL REGION□ WHY IN NEWS ?
The massacre of at least 160 people in a border village in Burkina Faso over the weekend is a reminder of the threat the Sahel region faces from terrorism.
□ ABOUT :-
◇ Sahel is the
ecoclimatic and
biogeographic realm of transition in Africa between the
Sahara in north and the
Sudanian savanna in south.
◇ Having a
semi-arid climate, stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the
Atlantic Ocean and
the Red Sea.◇ The name is derived from the Arabic term for “
coast, shore”.◇ The Sahel part includes from west to east parts of
northern Senegal, southern Mauritania,
central Mali, northern Burkina Faso,
the extreme south of Algeria, Niger,
the extreme north of Nigeria,
the extreme north of Cameroon and
the Central African Republic, central Chad, central and
southern Sudan,
the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and the
extreme north of Ethiopia. ︎
SOURCE - TH.
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