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Renewables Could Green the Sahara Desert

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Sep 24, 2018 Cover enough ground with wind turbines and solar panels and you change the local climate, green the desert and could even boost the Sahara’s rainfall. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Warming Climate Increases the Spreading of the Sahara

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Apr 5, 2018 If climate change is at work in northern Africa, and it is, the same may hold true for some of the world’s other deserts, researchers warn. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Jihadism in North Africa Gets U.S. Attention

William Pfaff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2013 Is the Sahara the newest great threat to the United States -- "a terrorist training ground," hotbed of extremism, the new Afghanistan -- in the Great War against Islamic terrorism that still preoccupies the American political class and the foreign affairs community? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Blue Man Coup, Part 2: War for God, Country and Cocaine

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 17, 2012 Are the emirs of the Sahara criminals or revolutionaries? A little bit of both, probably. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Blue Man Coup: How Gadhafi’s Mercenaries Broke Mali

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 16, 2012 Everything that rises must converge, and in 2012, an uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, US counterterrorism, cocaine smuggling and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earthAn uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu has kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, U counterterrorism, and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earth. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )