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Sahel and covers
The Sudano-Sahelian architecture ( also Sudanese and the French style-Soudanais ) covers an umbrella of similar architectural styles common to the Islamized peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland ( geographical ) regions of West Africa, south of ( and within ) the Sahara, but above fertile forest regions of the coast.

Sahel and parts
Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.
Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.
Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.
They are declining in Sahel and several parts of their southern, northern and western distribution in Africa.
With a mixed farming economy — millet production combined with the rearing of livestock — this copper-based agro-pastoral society traded in jewelry and semi-precious stones from distant parts of the Sahara and Sahel.
The main ethno-linguistic divisions are Afro-Asiatic ( North Africa, Horn of Africa ), Niger – Congo ( including speakers from the Bantu branch ) in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, Nilo-Saharan in parts of the Sahara and the Sahel and parts of Eastern Africa, and Khoisan ( indigenous minorities of Southern Africa ).
Most of the 35, 100 km² of land is classified as " Sahel ", though the northern parts head toward desert, and the very southern edges along the border with Nigeria get almost 600 mm a year in average rainfall, with some areas receiving as much as 650 – 700 mm in better years.

Sahel and territory
The French thrust into the African interior was mainly from the continent's Atlantic coast ( modern Senegal ) eastward, through the Sahel along the southern border of the Sahara, a territory covering modern Senegal, Mali, Niger, and Chad.
Hadrumetum was one of the most important communities within the Roman territory in northern Africa because of its strategic location on the sea in the heart of the fertile Sahel region.

Sahel and from
A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.
The semiarid sahelian zone, or Sahel, forms a belt about wide that runs from Lac and Chari-Baguirmi prefectures eastward through Guéra, Ouaddaï, and northern Salamat prefectures to the Sudanese frontier.
The empire controlled all of the Sahel from the borders of Darfur in the east to Hausaland to the west.
The speakers of Kwa languages are believed to have come from East / Central Africa, before settling in the Sahel.
On the other hand, hurricane formation was greatly diminished from 1968 to 1994, which for some reason coincides with the great Sahel drought.
The major cause of Borno's decline was a severe drought that struck the Sahel and savanna from in the middle of the 18th century.
The great bend of the Niger River, seen from space, creates a green arc through the brown of the Sahel and Savanna.
Historically it was the most widespread subspecies, ranging from Ethiopia and Sudan in the east throughout the Sahel to Senegal and Mauritania in the west, and north to Egypt and southern Morocco, respectively.
The term " Sudan " derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān " land of the Blacks ", and is used more loosely of West and Central Africa in general, especially the Sahel region.
Inland from the Sahel, between the Dorsal and a range of hills south of Gafsa, are the Steppes.
| 1 | Earlier came migrations from surrounding territories including the north, the east, and the Sahel region of Africa.
Mali is a landlocked nation in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria, extending south-west from the southern Sahara through the Sahel to the Sudanian savanna zone.
In addition, a number of " grasshopper " species such as the Senegalese grasshopper Oedaleus senegalensis, and the rice grasshopper Hieroglyphus daganensis ( both from the Sahel ), often display locust-like behaviour and change morphologically on crowding.
** A porridge made from pearl millet is the staple food in Niger and surrounding regions of the Sahel.
The Sahel region – a belt up to 1, 000 km wide that spans Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea
The Sahel is from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, in a belt that varies from several hundred to a thousand kilometers ( 620 miles ) in width, covering an area of.
Several isolated plateaus and mountain ranges rise from the Sahel, but are designated as separate ecoregions because their flora and fauna are distinct from the surrounding lowlands.
Annual rainfall varies from around 200 mm in the north of the Sahel to around 600 mm in the south.
The Sahel states were limited from expanding south into the forest zone of the Ashanti and Yoruba as mounted warriors were all but useless in the forests and the horses and camels could not survive the heat and diseases of the region.
The Atlantic languages are spoken along the Atlantic coast from Senegal to Liberia, though transhumant Fula speakers have spread eastward and are found in large numbers across the Sahel, from Senegal to Nigeria, Cameroon and Sudan.
They expanded southward from the Tafilalt region into the Sahel under their legendary queen Tin Hinan, who is assumed to have lived in the 4th or 5th century.

Sahel and west
The range of the okapi is limited by high montane forests to the east, swamps to the south-east, swamp forests below 500 m to the west, savannas of the Sahel / Sudan to the north, and open woodlands to the south.
The specter of famine recurred only in the early 1970s, when Ethiopia and the west African Sahel suffered drought and famine.
For example, the Eurasian Wryneck breeds in Europe and west Asia and migrates to the Sahel in Africa in the winter.
The Songhai ( also Songhay or Sonrai ) are west Africans who speak Songhai languages, the lingua franca of the Songhai Empire which dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century.
The Chenoua Mount region, highest point of the Algiers Sahel, is the most eastern part of the Chenoui speaking region going from Fouka ( 42 km west of Algiers ) until Tenès ( 200 km west of Algiers ).
In early twentieth century classification of African languages, Sudanic languages was a generic term for African languages spoken in the Sahel belt from Ethiopia in the east to Senegal in the west.

Sahel and east
: Sahel east to Ethiopia, southwards around Congo basin to S Tanzania and NE Angola.
The extreme east of the Sahel came under Italian control as Italian Eritrea in 1890.
In the north of the region lies the Sahel, a more arid Acacia savanna region which in turn borders the Sahara desert to the north, and the Ethiopian Highlands in the east ( called al-Ḥabašah in Arabic ).
It also breeds south of the Sahara from the Sahel region east to Somalia ; these birds are sometimes considered to be a separate species, African Scrub Robin ( C. minor ).
Darfur became a great power of the Sahel under the Keira dynasty, expanding its borders as far east as the Atbarah River and attracting immigrants from Bornu and Bagirmi.
* Far to the east, on Lake Chad, the state of Kanem-Bornu, founded as Kanem in the 9th century, now rose to greater preeminence in the central Sahel region.
The kéwel is distributed from Senegal and southern Mauritania across the Sahel, east to Ethiopia and Eritrea and south to Angola and the southern DRC.

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