• The desert covers much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and the Sudan. (wikipedia.org)
  • To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • To the north, the Sahara skirts the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt and portions of Libya, but in Cyrenaica and the Maghreb, the Sahara borders the Mediterranean forest, woodland, and scrub eco-regions of northern Africa, all of which have a Mediterranean climate characterized by hot summers and cool and rainy winters. (wikipedia.org)
  • To the south, the Sahara is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of dry tropical savanna with a summer rainy season that extends across Africa from east to west. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sudan has a unique position in Africa, as the meeting point of the African and Arab cultures, which has resulted in an identity crisis, exacerbated by vested interests due to the country's resources and strategic location. (co.ke)
  • Most African governments would rather cut a deal with a multinational, stuffed with concessions, than work with companies by their own nationals… they fear successful businesses will use their economic power in politics,' the owner of a string of thriving African companies told Africa Confidential . (africa-confidential.com)
  • Due to be launched this month, an African Union-backed report by South Africa 's ex-President Thabo Mbeki , which shows how tax fraud, trade mispricing and political corruption cost treasuries some $50 bn. (africa-confidential.com)
  • Despite the vast disparity in the pace of vaccinations for Covid-19, currently at over 20% having one dose in North America, 5% in the world, and less in 1% for Africa, the United States, other rich countries, and pharmaceutical companies are still rejecting growing demands to waive patents and transfer technology. (africafocus.org)
  • Before Israel's establishment in 1948, Morocco was home to a large Jewish population, many of whose ancestors migrated to North Africa from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition. (westernjournal.com)
  • Speaking on the final day of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, Omar Hilale said Morocco is resolute in finding a solution to the "fabricated regional conflict" as an aid to promoting peace and stability in the region and Africa more widely. (arabnews.com)
  • Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners , a private equity firm investing in Israeli and American companies expanding in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The strategy would, in effect, reanimate the millennia-old Tripoli to Lake Chad trade route that linked the Mediterranean with equatorial Africa. (acdemocracy.org)
  • Even at the height of an economic boom, having gained formal 'independence' from the main powers, capitalism has held the entire continent of Africa in a state of almost permanent economic and social crisis for decades and has not permitted a single inroad on the most serious problems facing the African people. (marxist.com)
  • Our response to the initiative of Saudi Arabia and the United States does not exclude the role of Igad and the role with which (South Sudan) President Salva Kiir has been entrusted," Ali told a Tuesday press conference in Juba, where he visited as part of Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's latest shuttle diplomacy. (co.ke)
  • South Sudan has opened a new refugee camp in its northern region to receive people fleeing conflicts in neighbouring Sudan, a senior official said. (vifindia.org)
  • The Sahara can be divided into several regions, including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. (wikipedia.org)
  • Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah said his government is ready to hold general elections this year. (vifindia.org)
  • A Libyan interposition force deployed in the country's western city of Zawiya after battles between armed groups left three people dead. (vifindia.org)
  • The national as well as official language is Arabic, with its eastern and western Libyan colloquial variety being generally used in familiar, everyday life situations and the modern standard one being employed in formal settings and for administrative purposes. (cap-lmu.de)
  • President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, just hours after she announced the Justice Department would not defend Trump's executive order banning temporarily all refugees, as well as all citizens, from the seven Muslim-majority nations Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. (democracynow.org)
  • Tunisian troops stopped two bomb-laden cars crossing from Libya and seized arms and documents bearing the symbol of Islamic State, as security tightened following two major attacks this year, the government said on Thursday. (africacenter.org)
  • Experts on Sudan are concerned that multiple initiatives could lead to confusion as Sudan teeters towards a total breakdown of law and order similar to Libya. (co.ke)
  • Libya's isolation ceased with the emergence of Gaddafi, who ran hot and cold on the unification of Libya with Egypt (and the Sudan). (acdemocracy.org)
  • Ties between Libya and the European Union are quite strong, despite the trade balance being clearly negative for the latter. (cap-lmu.de)
  • Egypt sent aid and logistical and humanitarian support to Sudan as the two countries stress the need to continue consultations and mutual coordination on Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam. (vifdatabase.com)
  • Egypt has a big influence on Sudan today, especially when it comes to infrastructure and energy. (co.ke)
  • It borders Egypt to the east, Sudan to the south-east, Chad to the south, Niger to the south-west, Algeria to the west and Tunisia to the north-west, while facing the Mediterranean Sea all along her northern shores. (cap-lmu.de)
  • Algeria accused its neighbour Morocco of killing three people in an attack on the edge of the contested territory of Western Sahara on April 12. (vifdatabase.com)
  • Morocco continues to support the efforts of the UN to relaunch roundtables with the same format and the same participants, especially Algeria, the main party to this conflict, in line with its Security Council resolution 2654," he added. (arabnews.com)
  • The Western Sahara conflict dates back to 1975, after the withdrawal of colonial occupier Spain, sparking a 15-year war between the Algeria-backed Polisario Front and Morocco for control over the territory. (arabnews.com)
  • On Thursday, Saudi Arabia-led mediation saw the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) sign the first deal since the war began. (co.ke)
  • Some 17,000 people are said to have been killed in that time and attacks by the group have intensified since Muhammadu Buhari became president in May, vowing to defeat the insurgents. (africacenter.org)
  • Diplomats from Italy and Spain are holding talks after Rome's move to secure large volumes of Algerian gas stoked concerns in Madrid that its own access to the key fuel could be affected, according to people familiar with the situation. (vifdatabase.com)
  • As mediation went on in Jeddah, sponsored by the Saudis and the US, Dafallah Al-Haj Ali, special envoy of the head of the Sudan Sovereign Council said the talks are focused on opening humanitarian corridors, and the Inter-governmental Authority on Development is likely to play a key role in ensuring final political settlement. (co.ke)
  • The highest peak in the Sahara is Emi Koussi, a shield volcano in the Tibesti range of northern Chad. (wikipedia.org)
  • She said that she also heard stories of unimaginable suffering in Sudan and enormous needs in Chad," he added. (africacenter.org)
  • Overall, more than 2.6 million people have been internally displaced since the start of the conflict on 15 April. (africacenter.org)
  • As part of the deal, Morocco , which is home to a small but centuries-old Jewish community and has long welcomed Israeli tourists, secured U.S. recognition of its 1975 annexation of the disputed region of Western Sahara. (westernjournal.com)
  • General Diendere and his accomplices will answer for all the offences of which they are accused," the country's interim government said in a statement, adding that a "commission of inquiry" was already "hard at work" investigating the coup. (africacenter.org)
  • Alan championed and dedicated SANS resources to increasing essential security hygiene, security team diversity, and growing the number of people joining the cybersecurity profession long before any profit was possible from those efforts. (sans.org)
  • The United States has approved a nearly $1bn weapons sale to Nigeria after legislators had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights abuses by the Nigerian government. (vifdatabase.com)
  • Morocco has demanded that Israel recognise its sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara before Rabat opens an embassy in Tel Aviv, the news outlet Axios has reported, citing four current and former Israeli officials involved in the matter. (vifindia.org)
  • During the 1990s, Israel and Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations, but Morocco closed its representative office in Tel Aviv after the eruption of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. (westernjournal.com)
  • Somalia's government claimed on Saturday that the Al Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked to open negotiations, amid a military offensive the government has described as "total war. (vifindia.org)
  • For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000-year cycle caused by the precession of Earth's axis (about 26,000 years) as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African monsoon. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beijing could hold the key to any future peace in Sudan, but this projection must be buttressed with realism. (vifindia.org)
  • According to the botanical criteria of Frank White and geographer Robert Capot-Rey, the northern limit of the Sahara corresponds to the northern limit of date palm cultivation and the southern limit of the range of esparto, a grass typical of the Mediterranean climate portion of the Maghreb and Iberia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Much closer in time, the Maccabiah Games close Tuesday, with final results expected to be more definitive than the national election, which will almost inevitably end up with weeks of negotiations leading to a tenuous coalition government. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • NEW YORK: Morocco's permanent representative to the UN on Tuesday called for a resumption of negotiations over the situation in Western Sahara. (arabnews.com)
  • Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner led a delegation from Israel to Morocco on Tuesday on the first known direct flight since the two countries agreed to establish full diplomatic ties earlier this month as part of a series of U.S.-brokered accords with Arab countries. (westernjournal.com)
  • On the tarmac in Israel, Kushner said that he hopes the delegation's visit will "pave the way for another warm peace between Israel and Morocco," pointing to the emerging ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. (westernjournal.com)
  • The latest television station to be banned by the Superior Council for Communication, a government media regulator, is the French news channel La Chaîne Info (LCI). (africacenter.org)
  • Kenya has not petitioned the EAC Council of Ministers to help resolve the raging trade dispute with Pakistan. (wn.com)
  • Portugal renewed its support for Morocco's Autonomy Plan, describing it as a serious and credible basis to end the dispute over Western Sahara. (vifindia.org)
  • Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, has overseen the diplomatic push that saw the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco normalize relations with Israel in historic agreements. (westernjournal.com)
  • Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman, investor, and former government official. (wikipedia.org)
  • For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City , especially through the family business Kushner Companies . (wikipedia.org)
  • He took over the company after his father Charles Kushner was convicted for 18 criminal charges, including illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering in 2005, although Charles was controversially pardoned by Trump in 2020. (wikipedia.org)
  • At Harvard, Kushner was elected into the Fly Club , supported the campus Chabad house, [20] [21] and bought and sold real estate in Somerville, Massachusetts , as a vice president of Somerville Building Associates (a division of Kushner Companies), returning a profit of $20 million by its dissolution in 2005. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mali's junta leader on Friday pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. (vifindia.org)
  • She noted as many as 150 million people across the world risk falling into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis. (africafocus.org)
  • Morocco will likely award a project to build a high-speed train linking two of its key cities to a Chinese company following a political crisis with France, according to a newspaper in the North African Arab nation. (vifindia.org)
  • The United Nations estimates that nearly 900 million people live without clean water and 2.6 billion without proper sanitation. (semide.net)
  • India has achieved major advances in its energy sector over the last two decades, including increasing access to electricity for more than 700 million people since 2000 1 and achieving remarkable growth in clean energy technologies like solar power generation and energy-efficient appliances. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • The UN says 2.4 million people are in immediate need of food aid. (wn.com)
  • A 1991 ceasefire deal brought fighting to an end, with Morocco in control of 80 percent of the resource-rich desert region and the Polisario Front clinging to hopes of a UN-supervised referendum on independence provided for in the deal. (arabnews.com)
  • Democracy or no democracy, people can and will only take so much. (globalissues.org)
  • But it was labelled as a "commitment to protect civilians of Sudan," focusing on civilian safety rather than a ceasefire. (co.ke)
  • doesn't accept advertising income, corporate underwriting or government funding because nothing is more important to us than our editorial independence. (democracynow.org)
  • Sudan has been a member of the Arab League since 1956, the year the country gained Independence. (co.ke)
  • The Sahara (/səˈhɑːrə/, /səˈhærə/) is a desert on the African continent. (wikipedia.org)
  • The name "Sahara" is derived from the Arabic word for "desert" in the feminine irregular form, the singular ṣaḥra' (صحراء /ˈsˤaħra/), plural ṣaḥārā (صَحَارَى /ˈsˤaħaːraː/), ṣaḥār (صَحَار), ṣaḥrāwāt (wikipedia.org)
  • A large part of it spreads along the Gulf of Sidra, while quickly giving space to the Sahara Desert covering all the rest of the country s 1,759,540 km2 surface as soon as one heads towards the interior. (cap-lmu.de)
  • The delegations were expected to restore low-level relations between Israel and Morocco and sign several cooperation agreements, including the establishment of direct flights, according to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat. (westernjournal.com)
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews trace their lineage to Morocco, and a small community of Jews, estimated at several thousand people, continues to live there. (westernjournal.com)
  • Nearly 200,000 people were displaced by fighting inside Sudan over the past week, the UN reported on Tuesday, citing new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). (africacenter.org)
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  • But the truth is that most business people want to be Harry Oppenheimer , not Nelson Mandela . (africa-confidential.com)
  • As many African governments drift and in some cases, gallop, towards more authoritarian rule, some officials justify such moves by pointing to Asia's economic successes under harsh regimes. (africa-confidential.com)
  • One month since Sudan's conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle at home as gun battles rage, while the western Darfur region has descended into deadly chaos. (vifindia.org)
  • Sudan closed its border with the Central African Republic (CAR) and sent military reinforcements to frontier areas, local media reported on Thursday. (vifindia.org)
  • Whether Saudi's early fruits for hosting the warring parties can be seen as a neighbour helping another has also become an identity question: Is Sudan Arab, African or both? (co.ke)
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  • Following Zaki's condemnation, three liberal opposition figures immediately announced that they were withdrawing from the national dialogue, launched at the beginning of May by the government, less than one year before presidential elections. (africacenter.org)
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  • Meanwhile, more than 730,000 people have fled Sudan for neighbouring countries, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. (africacenter.org)
  • In many countries, reformers have stabilised economies and whittled down government debts but the political price of those measures will be much higher in 2015. (africa-confidential.com)
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