{"id":10805,"date":"2025-08-05T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:01:56","slug":"sahel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sahel-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Sahel Region Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russia has tightened its grip over the Sahel region in West Africa, signing a key nuclear agreement with Niger recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Sahel Region<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>semiarid region<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>western and north-central Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 5,000 kilometre belt of land, the Sahel stretches <\/span><b>from Africa\u2019s Atlantic Coast to the Red Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It forms <\/span><b>a transitional zone between<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>arid Sahara<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (desert) <\/span><b>to the north a<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd the belt of <\/span><b>humid savannas to the south.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It runs through portions of the countries of <\/span><b>Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Eritrea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sahel is a semiarid<\/span><b> steppe,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a type of<\/span><b> dry grassland.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>vegetation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is chiefly of the <\/span><b>savanna type, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with <\/span><b>little continuous cover.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has low-growing grass, thorny shrubs, and <\/span><b>scattered acacia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>baobab trees.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>\u202fSince\u202fgaining\u202findependence<\/b> <b>in the 1960s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, many <\/span><b>countries <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Sahel<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have <\/span><b>experienced\u202fviolent extremism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to\u202fthe\u202fconfluence of\u202fweak and <\/span><b>illegitimate governance,\u202feconomic decline, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and\u202fthe worsening <\/span><b>effects of\u202fclimate change.\u202f<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The Sahel remains a <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">principal\u202ftransit point\u202ffor migrants<\/b> <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">traveling <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from sub-Saharan Africa to northern coastal states and on <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">to Europe.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/videos\/international\/putin-stuns-trump-after-wagner-move-russia-cements-nuclear-ambition-in-last-sahel-region-africa\/videoshow\/122978594.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahel Region is a semiarid transitional zone in western and north-central Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. 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