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October 12, 2013: A group of young people travel as stowaways on wagons loaded with iron ore on the trans-Saharan train that crosses the Sahara Desert, from the mining town of Zouerat, to the commercial port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

The remains of destroyed tanks and other war equipment at the Wadi Doum war site in the Sahara, northern Chad, close to the Ennedi massif. The sand dunes now cover much of the old war equipment. This is where the last battles of the war between Chad and its northern neighbor Libya took place in 1986/1987 - in 1987, Chad's army was able to push back Libyan troops in the so-called "Toyota War", thus ending the military conflict.

Kanem, Chad - February 04, 2020: A man of the Fula people is riding on his camel in the typical landscape of the Sahel region. Beside him there is a younger camel. The Sahel is Africas transition zone between the Sahara desert in the north and the Savanna belt in the south. Sahel means in Arabic "coast" or "shore", literally it is also the "coast of the Sahara". The Sahel belt is hot and dry and on most of the days quite windy, it is definitely one of the hardest inhabited regions of our world. For hundreds of years, the Sahel region has experienced regular droughts and mega droughts which led several times to large scale famine.

Remote huts of nomadic people in the transition zone between Sahel and Sahara in Northern Chad. The air is full of sand after a sandstorm. The Sahel is Africas transition zone between the Sahara desert in the north and the Savanna belt in the south. Sahel means in Arabic "coast" or "shore", literally it is also the "coast of the Sahara". The Sahel belt is hot and dry and on most of the days quite windy, it is definitely one of the hardest inhabited regions of our world. For hundreds of years, the Sahel region has experienced regular droughts and mega droughts which led several times to large scale famine.

Kanem, Chad - February 04, 2020: A Fula woman in front of her samll hut in a very remote settlement during a sand storm. Typical landscape of the Sahel region. The Sahel is Africas transition zone between the Sahara desert in the north and the Savanna belt in the south. Sahel means in Arabic "coast" or "shore", literally it is also the "coast of the Sahara". The Sahel belt is hot and dry and on most of the days quite windy, it is definitely one of the hardest inhabited regions of our world. For hundreds of years, the Sahel region has experienced regular droughts and mega droughts which led several times to large scale famine.Kanem, Chad - February 04, 2020: A man of the Fula people is riding on his camel in the typical landscape of the Sahel region. Beside him there is a younger camel. The Sahel is Africas transition zone between the Sahara desert in the north and the Savanna belt in the south. Sahel means in Arabic "coast" or "shore", literally it is also the "coast of the Sahara". The Sahel belt is hot and dry and on most of the days quite windy, it is definitely one of the hardest inhabited regions of our world. For hundreds of years, the Sahel region has experienced regular droughts and mega droughts which led several times to large scale famine.

3D Render of a Topographic Map of Chad. All source data is in the public domain. Color texture: Made with Natural Earth. http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-raster-data/10m-cross-blend-hypso/ Relief texture: SRTM data courtesy of NASA JPL (2020). URL of source image: https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov//DP133/SRTM/SRTMGL3.003/2000.02.11 Water texture: SRTM Water Body SWDB: https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SWBD/ Boundaries Level 0: Humanitarian Information Unit HIU, U.S. Department of State (database: LSIB) http://geonode.state.gov/layers/geonode%3ALSIB7a_Gen

The remains of destroyed tanks and other war equipment at the Wadi Doum war site in the Sahara, northern Chad, close to the Ennedi massif. The sand dunes now cover much of the old war equipment. This is where the last battles of the war between Chad and its northern neighbor Libya took place in 1986/1987 - in 1987, Chad's army was able to push back Libyan troops in the so-called "Toyota War", thus ending the military conflict.

St. Louis, Senegal, March 12th 2013. The heart of this old colonial city is located on a narrow island in the Senegal River. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage and described as "the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa" by the United Nations' UN-Habitat agency. The streets of the the chaotic city center, provide a stage for all kind of vehicles, horse carts, typical Sahel short-distance buses, cars and pedestrians. The residents of Saint-Louis try to make the best out of it, but poverty can be seen on every corner of the city.

Bush fires are one of the scourges of the Sahel region. Fueled by thermal breezes and dry grass, they can destroy vast areas of pasture. It spread for nearly 10 hours, destroying several thousand hectares. Located in Ferlo, in the north of Senegal, the territory studied by the french Nationa center for scientific research ( CNRS) Tessékéré presents all the features specific to the Sahel (rainfall deficit, anthropogenic pressure on the environment, modification of the major ecological balances) and the particularity of being at the heart of the Sahel. 'a very important pan-African development and reforestation program, called the Great Green Wall. Senegal, 17 November 2011.

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