Running along the south of desert is the plains region known as the Sahel.

Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations.

The size of the lake is determined by rains in the southern highlands bordering the basin and by temperatures in the Sahel.

The central Sahel is characterized by drought-resistant grasses and small woods.

In the southern part of the Sahel, rainfall is sufficient to permit crop production on unirrigated land, and millet and sorghum are grown.

During the late 1770s and the early 19th century, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.

North Africa enjoyed a fertile climate during the subpluvial era ; what is now the Sahara supported a savanna type of ecosystem, with elephant, giraffe, and other grassland and woodland animals now typical of the Sahel region south of the desert.

The Sahel Climate or Tropical dry climate, is the predominant climate type in the northern part of Nigeria.

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 Sahel is the transitional zone between the Sahara and the tropical savanna ( the Sudan region ) and forest-savanna mosaic to the south.

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.

The population is generally concentrated in the south and along the major north-south highway connecting the coast to the Sahel.

The Sahel, a broadening coastal plain along Tunisia's eastern Mediterranean coast, is among the world's premier areas of olive cultivation.

It is considered part of both the Sahel and the Maghreb.

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.

** A porridge made from pearl millet is the staple food in Niger and surrounding regions of the Sahel.

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian Savannas in the south.

The topography of the Sahel is mainly flat, and the region mostly lies between 200 and 400 meters elevation.

The Sahel is mostly covered in grassland and savanna, with areas of woodland and shrubland.

The eastern Sahel ( the part in what is now Sudan ) did not fall to the European powers but was annexed by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1820.

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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.

Guinea-Bissau is a member of several international organizations: the United Nations and many of its specialized and related agencies, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Group of 77, and the International Civil Aviation Organization ; the African Development Bank ( AFDB ); the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ); the West African Economic and Monetary Union ( WAEMU ); the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ); the African Union ( AU ); and, the permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel ( CILSS ).

In Africa, Eid is celebrated by Muslims in various areas, particularly in North Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, where Islam is adhered to by many.

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.

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.

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.

The Sahel region – a belt up to 1, 000 km wide that spans Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea

The Sahel covers parts of the territory of ( from west to east ) Northern part of Senegal, southern part of Mauritania, middle part of Mali, southern part of Algeria and Niger, middle part of Chad, southern part of Sudan, northern part of South Sudan and Eritrea.

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.