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Sub-Saharan Africa is a major producer of gold, producing up to 30% of global production. Major suppliers are South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Guinea, and Mali. South Africa had been first in the world in terms of gold production since 1905, but in 2007 it moved to second place, according to GFMS, the precious metals consultancy. [171]
The South Saharan steppe and woodlands, also known as the South Sahara desert, is a deserts and xeric shrublands ecoregion of northern Africa.This band is a transitional region between the Sahara's very arid center (the Sahara desert ecoregion) to the north, and the wetter Sahelian Acacia savanna ecoregion to the south. [1]
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara. The Sahel region covers a belt of grasslands south of the Sahara stretching from Senegal to Sudan . The Sudan , slightly more humid and arable region lying below the Sahel.
According to some modern historians, of all the regions of Africa, western Sudan "is the one that has seen the longest development of agriculture, of markets and long-distance trade, and of complex political systems." It is also the first region "south of the Sahara where African Islam took root and flowered." [9]
Satellite imagery of Southern Africa.. The area located at the south of the desert is a steppe, a semi-arid region, called the Sahel.It is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.
Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.
The Sahel region (/ s ə ˈ h ɛ l /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil) 'coast, shore'), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa.It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
South Africa's Cape Town has great shops and restaurants and I loved the liveliness of Morocco. ... The standout for me was our three-day tour from Marrakesh to the Sahara Desert. We journeyed ...