Word: saharan
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...famine here is more subtle than the sub-Saharan ones, where people starved to death because there was no food. There is still food here. Just not enough in the daily diet to avoid widespread malnutrition and an increasing number of fatal illnesses. People are surviving on just one-fifth of the calories required to maintain health. All food is rationed...
...Uganda's Museveni, an ex-Marxist who has spearheaded one of the most remarkable economic and social comebacks in the world. Not only has Museveni reinvigorated a country that was once a synonym for horror, but he is also exerting profound influence across the breadth of sub-Saharan Africa. Old friends, proteges and disciples have either gained power or, as in Kabila's case, are in the process of winning it, from the Great Lakes region north to Sudan and west to the mouth of the Congo...
...good news in the U.S., the disease continues to devestate the rest of the world. Estimates are that anywhere from 15 to 50 million people could be HIV positive in India by the year 2000. Meanwhile, some 60 percent of world's HIV-positive population live in Sub-Saharan Africa, where few can afford the expensive drug treatments that have had success against the disease...
...then there is Africa, across much of which the disease continues to rage unchecked. Already the sub-Saharan region accounts for more than 60% of people living with HIV worldwide, or some 14 million men, women and children. As many people will die there this year from the disease as were massacred two years ago in the Rwandan holocaust. The social consequences of this die-off are catastrophic. By the year 2000, nearly 2 million children in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia will have lost their parents to the disease...
...bust hurricane cycles lasting decades have been well documented, the reasons for them remain obscure. That's not the case for individual storms, though. Atlantic hurricanes inevitably get their start in Africa, where hot, dry air overlying the Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...