Sahara Desert
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| Area | 92 |
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| Coordinates | 23°N 13°E / 23°N 13°E Coordinates: 23°N 13°E / 23°N 13°E |
| Width | 1,800 km (1,100 mi) |
| Length | 4,800 km (3,000 mi) |
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| ID | 2060467 |
About Sahara Desert
The Sahara is a desert located on the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert overall after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its area of 9,200,000 square kilometres is comparable to the area of China or the United States.
Jet ski Moroccan tourist describes being shot at off Algerian coast
... What are the effects? The long border through the Sahara Desert remains tightly closed - there is no direct legal trade between the two neighbours...
Sudan conflict: Black market AK-47s flood Sudan's capital
... This means that he no longer has to rely on " the Clash" being smuggled in via the Sahara Desert from Libya, which he describes as an " open arms market" - a sign of the extent to which lawlessness and instability has engulfed the North African state since the overthrow and killing of long-serving ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011...
Niger coup: A litmus test for democracy in West Africa
... Mr Ojewale is not sure whether the bloc has the military capability to intervene in Niger - a vast arid country on the edge of the Sahara Desert - especially when many of the countries that make it up, including Nigeria, are facing their own security challenges...
Niger coup: ‘Why I want Russia in and France out'
... But his government was a target for Islamist militants linked to the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda who roam across parts of the Sahara Desert and the semi-arid Sahel just to the south...
Niger coup: Captive President Bazoum defiant after takeover
... The vast arid country on the edge of the Sahara Desert - one of the world s poorest nations - has experienced four coups since independence from France in 1960, as well as numerous attempted coups...
Heatwave: BBC correspondents on how people are coping
... The Sahara Desert is slowly creeping into Europe, was how one man described what he believes is happening...
Climate change: Sudden heat increase in seas around UK and Ireland
... Professor Michael Mann, an atmospheric scientist at Penn State University, says weaker than average winds have reduced the amount of dust from the Sahara Desert in the atmosphere...
Why Russia is cheering on the Burkina Faso coup
... For nearly a decade France has been trying to help armies in the Sahel region - a strip of semi-arid land south of the Sahara Desert that includes Burkina Faso - to tackle jihadist militants, some of whom are linked to al-Qaeda or the Islamic State group...
