{"id":344051,"date":"2025-08-06T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=344051"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:39:18","slug":"sahel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sahel-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahel Region\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Russia has strengthened its influence in West Africa\u2019s Sahel region by signing a significant nuclear agreement with Niger.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Sahel Region\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Sahel Region<\/strong> is a <strong>semi-arid belt<\/strong> located in <strong>western and north-central Africa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It extends approximately <strong>5,000 kilometers<\/strong> from the <strong>Atlantic Ocean<\/strong> in the west to the <strong>Red Sea<\/strong> in the east.<\/li>\n<li>The Sahel acts as a <strong>transitional zone<\/strong> between: the <strong>Sahara Desert<\/strong> to the north and the <strong>humid savannas<\/strong> of sub-Saharan Africa to the south.<\/li>\n<li>The Sahel passes through parts of <strong>10 African countries<\/strong>: <strong>Senegal<\/strong>, <strong>Mauritania<\/strong>, <strong>Mali<\/strong>, <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>, <strong>Niger<\/strong>, <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>, <strong>Chad<\/strong>, <strong>Sudan<\/strong>, <strong>Eritrea<\/strong>, and <strong>(sometimes also includes parts of Ethiopia)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>highest point in the Sahel is Mount Koel in Burkina Faso,<\/strong> which stands at just 448 meters above sea level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:<\/strong> Semi-arid grasslands, savannah, and thorn shrublands.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate:<\/strong> The Sahel has a tropical, semi-arid climate characterized by a hot, dry season and a short rainy season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Russia has strengthened its influence in West Africa\u2019s Sahel region by signing a significant nuclear agreement with Niger. About Sahel Region\u00a0 The Sahel Region is a semi-arid belt located in western and north-central Africa. It extends approximately 5,000 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sahel-region\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sahel Region\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10496],"class_list":["post-344051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}