Arid Band

Wednesday, 08 September 2021

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Terror In The Desert: Militants Kill 95 Civilians, 29 Soldiers In Burkina Faso In Two Days

The Tennessee Tribune 20 Aug 2021

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Suspected Islamic militants have killed 80 civilians and 29 soldiers over two days in the restive northern Burkina Faso ... 20 ... 18 in the same region ... 19 ... 4 ... Since 2015, jihadist groups have threatened Burkina Faso, an impoverished country in the arid sub-Saharan Sahel, a semi-arid band beneath the Sahara desert ... 16 ... ....

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Death toll from Burkina Faso attack rises to 80

Reuters 20 Aug 2021

Fifty-nine civilians, six pro-government militiamen and 15 military police were killed, the government and the military said on Thursday ... Violence in the Sahel, a band of arid land that borders the south edge of the Sahara Desert, has intensified in recent years despite the presence of thousands of U.N., regional and Western troops ... read more ... ....

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Burkina Faso attack a reminder of Sub-Saharan Africa’s jihadist threat

The Arab Weekly 19 Aug 2021

Burkina Faso, a poor country in the arid sub-Saharan ... Violence in the Sahel, a semi-arid band beneath the Sahara Desert, has continued to intensify despite the presence of thousands of UN, regional and Western troops and efforts by some governments to negotiate with the militants.

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Dozens killed in northern Burkina Faso rebel attack

Al Jazeera 18 Aug 2021

State media reported that government troops killed 16 rebels while a security source put the number at 58 ... Violence in the Sahel, a semi-arid band beneath the Sahara Desert, has continued to intensify despite the presence of thousands of UN, regional and Western troops and efforts by some governments to negotiate with rebel groups ... .

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Dozens killed in Burkina Faso as rebels and army clash

Business Day 18 Aug 2021

State media reported that government troops killed 16 militants while a security source put the number at 58 ... Violence in the Sahel, a semi-arid band beneath the Sahara desert, has continued to intensify despite the presence of thousands of UN, regional and Western troops and efforts by some governments to negotiate with the militants.

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May birds: Barn swallow, Meadowlark

Belgrade News 29 Apr 2021

With the warm weather of spring, birders flock outdoors. They seek different species of birds in different habitats. They look for migrants passing through and they look for birds that nest locally. They respect birds and their environment ... Most common in arid grasslands, the Western Meadowlark has a yellow underside with a black breast band ... .

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Stereogum 26 Mar 2021

At first "Shelter Song" plays like an extension of Beyondless' arid textures, but then the band take a page out of Spiritualized's desperately-seeking-salvation gospel affectations, and come up with one of the most powerful choruses of their career ... that’s at the core of the band.

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Une ligne de front invisible : le changement climatique en zone de conflit au Mali

Reliefweb 16 Mar 2021

Les niveaux de violence ne cessent d’augmenter dans toute la région africaine du Sahel, frappant de plein fouet les populations ... ... Il y a des zones désertiques dans le nord et le centre est traversé par la bande sahélienne (une zone de terres arides qui s'étend sur plusieurs pays) ... Par exemple ... .

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Malian architect fights climate change with digital greenhouse

Canada Dot Com 13 Feb 2020

Hotter temperatures and drought are adding to an already volatile situation in Mali where jihadist groups roam the northern desert reaches ... Strawberries grow year round, as do peppers and melons. It is a sight that occurs naturally less and less across the Sahel, the band of arid land that runs west to east at the Sahara Desert’s southern edge.

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NYC Trio Harriet Tubman Make Jazz Fusion a Liberating Experience

The Stranger 15 Jan 2020

Masters of improvised fusion ... In addition, Gibbs played bass in Rollins Band and Lewis drummed in Living Colour, high-profile gigs that don't seem to have swayed these guys to seek the accessible route in the music industry ... But bands such as Harriet Tubman exist to pulverize conventional (non)wisdom about its alleged arid, masturbatory qualities.

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Mali doesn’t want Emmanuel Macron’s military help any more

Business Day 27 Nov 2019

Johannesburg/Paris/Abidjan — The French were hailed as liberators in Mali in the aftermath of a bloody coup that left the land-locked former colony exposed. These days, Malians want them gone ... “Get out France ... The arid band on the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is the size of Europe and stretches through some of Africa’s poorest states.

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Why France is focused on fighting jihadists in Mali

BBC News 27 Nov 2019

As jihadist violence escalates in Mali, analyst Paul Melly considers if France can persuade the rest of Europe to join the deadly fight ... Murderous ambushes ... But they are covering a vast region where, even with US surveillance drone support, it is hard to track down small bands of militants, darting across the arid terrain on motorbikes. Jobs not guns.

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Al-Baghdadi's death won't staunch terrorist expansion in Africa

Stars and Stripes 02 Nov 2019

In the Sahel region, the arid band on the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert that stretches through some of Africa's poorest and least-governed countries, Islamic State followers are launching attacks against government forces. U.S. officials point to the Sahel as one of the biggest concerns in their counterterrorism campaign ... As the U.S ... The U.S.

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Betrayed yet again, the Kurds need our support

The Observer 11 Oct 2019

His callous betrayal of the Kurdish people is both reckless and dangerous ... North of that zone are the Taurus mountains; and south of that narrow east-west band there is semi-desert, which rapidly shades into arid desert. The band of green land that can support rain-fed agriculture is where population (predominantly Kurdish) is concentrated ... .

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30 Songs By 30 Acts From 30 Days of Music in Houston, Closing Set

Houston Press 04 Jul 2019

The song is heart-wrenching, not the sort of boot-scooter one might attach to a pre-game party, but the band delivered a fine and moving version to the Goodnight Charlie's crowd, so good it got them out of their seats and onto the dance floor ... "She's A Cadillac," Mike Stinson Band, Under the Volcano, July 3, 2019.