Word: saharan
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...vaunted ambition to establish a Saharan Islamic empire, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi has searched hard for a suitable first partner. In the eleven years since coming to power, he has at various times tried to woo Egypt, the Sudan, Syria and Tunisia into joining him in a "federation," "union" or "merger," all without any tangible success...
...Goukouni Oueddei to defeat his rival. Defense Minister Hissene Habre. The proposed Libya-Chad merger thus appeared less a union between consenting sovereign nations than an outright Libyan annexation of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Chad is an ideal launching position for his expansionist dream of a Saharan empire that would stretch from the Atlantic...
...forces, however, were more aggressively interested in the outcome. Oueddei was actively backed by his neighbor to the north, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously seized a swatch of disputed borderland. Chad seemed to fit neatly into the Libyan leader's ultimate dream of a sub-Saharan republic. Habré, meanwhile, was less directly supported by France, as part of Paris' abiding policy of trying to maintain a forceful role in the affairs of the French-speaking former African colonies...
Adds Bishop Tutu: "Our struggle for liberation and freedom in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa was led by people trained in Christian churches." Tutu believes the deepest reason for this lies in African character. Says he: "For the African, the spiritual realm is real, and something that is materialistic and atheistic like Marxism, whilst it may have a superficial attraction where there is a lot of oppression and injustice, cannot satisfy the deep longings of the African psyche...
...brigade is part of the Moroccan army's elite new Saharan task force, commanded by King Hassan's intelligence chief, Brigadier Achmed Dlimi. This "Uhud Force," named after a battle famous in Arab history, has been given the best of Rabat's military machine: escorting helicopter gunships, air cover from U.S.-made F-5s and advanced French Mirages flying out of Saharan air bases at Laayoun and Dakhia. Young Moroccan officers compete for assignment to Dlimi's force, and more than 60% of the soldiers are native Saharans who know the desert terrain as well...