The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...

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I had a wretched journey across the Sahara desert. Only the thought of the famous ... From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient kingdom of Benin is part ...

HABITAT: Savannah elephants occupy the savannah, grassland and desert ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa. RANGE: Savannah elephants live in sub-Saharan Africa occur in small populations of West and ...