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Sahara DesertArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
Armed robberies in Egypt's remotest desert - 27 Sep 2008 Kansas City Star,...and four Egyptians were kidnapped during an adventure safari in the Sahara desert and were taken across the border into neighboring Sudan, Monday. Murder, malnutrition and mafia: African immigrants speak out ... - 27 Sep 2008 Sunday Herald,...tragedies - in the Sahara desert and the Mediterranean sea - have had the effect of anaesthetizing the sensibilities of western newspaper readers. Our soldiers are not neglected - 27 Sep 2008 Irish Independent,...earlier the Army Ranger Wing, were deployed to a hostile environment, eight degrees north of the equator on the eastern edge of the Sahara desert. Giant mirrors tap sun in clean-power bid - 27 Sep 2008 Edmonton Journal,Knies, who has devised an audacious plan to erect fields of mirrors in the Sahara Desert and connect North African countries to Europe's power grid across Sudan tracks tourists, kidnappers in remote Sahara - Sep 23, 2008 The Associated PressABU SIMBEL, Egypt (AP) — Sudan said Tuesday it knows the location of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians kidnapped while on a Sahara desert safari, Welsh buzzard heads for Sahara - Sep 22, 2008 News Wales,A second honey buzzard from Wales has reached Africa on her migration south and is poised to tackle crossing the inhospitable Sahara Desert. Who sounds more plausible – Zuma or Mbeki? - Sep 25, 2008 Sowetan,Some cynics say that in politics crooks are a dime a dozen, an “un-crooked� politician being as rare as water in the Sahara Desert. North Essex: Dad's desert marathon - Sep 23, 2008 The Gazette,By Helen Orrell » A father is to stretch himself to the limit by racing 150 miles through the Sahara Desert in aid of a children’s hospital. LITHUANIA’S ‘SAHARA DESERT’ - Aug 30, 2008 WalesOnline,FOR something really different, stroll along Lithuania’s ‘Sahara Desert,’ a huge sand dune that forms a stunning lagoon. The country, with brilliant beaches Egypt scours desert for kidnapped tourists - Sep 23, 2008 AFP...after masked gunmen attacked their group of four off-road vehicles in one of the most isolated parts of the Sahara desert on Friday. Masked bandits kidnap tourists in Egypt desert - Sep 22, 2008 AFPCAIRO (AFP) — Masked bandits have kidnapped a group of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians who were on an expedition in a remote corner of the Sahara desert Desert Romance-Themed Collection at Peter Som - Sep 8, 2008 Wall Street Journal Blogs,On Monday, he showed a collection of whimsical, feminine pieces he says were inspired by the “Sahara desert, a sense of windswept romance. Remains of cemetery found in Sahara before it was dry - Aug 30, 2008 TheChronicleHerald.ca,E. SCHMID AP WASHINGTON — A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert. New Sahara Forest Project Aims to Bring Food, Water, Energy to Desert - Sep 3, 2008 DailyTech,Among the harshest environments in the world is the Sahara desert. With intense sunlight heating the sand to fiery temperatures and with little water, Sahara Forest Project Converts Desert into Oasis - Sep 4, 2008 Inhabitat...by Jorge Chapa Recently a trio of entrepreneurs announced an incredible solution for the world’s resource problems: turn the Sahara desert into a source for Music Review: Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music From Niger) - Sep 22, 2008 Blogcritics.org,French North Africa, including the parts of the Sahara desert which had been the Tuareg's traditional territory, was divided up arbitrarily into various Stone Age archaeological site discovered in Niger Desert - Sep 10, 2008 African Press Agency,...site dubbed "Gobero" in the Sahara Desert which dates back to the Stone Age era ie about 10000 years ago, IRSH officials revealed on Tuesday. DVD Review: Desert Rebels - Ishumars, The Forgotten Rockers Of The ... - Sep 10, 2008 Blogcritics.org,Part of the movie is spent following the musicians as the traveled across the Sahara desert in a small convoy of Toyota four-wheel drive vehicles and into As The Sahara Advances… - Sep 8, 2008 Vanguard,The surge of the Sahara Desert and the molestation of the creeks mean Nigeria is environmentally shrinking from north and south. Lecture on desert travel - Sep 6, 2008 The Star,By Staff Copy BUDDING explorers can pick up tips on how to cross the Sahara Desert at a lecture on Monday September 15 in Sheffield. Pair to put best feet forward in desert - Sep 4, 2008 Newmarket Journal,By Graham Clark A MOTHER and daughter team from Newmarket will take on the challenge of a lifetime when they trek across the Sahara desert for charity early First the Sahara, now America for Charlie Engle - Olympics - Sep 16, 2008 ESPNBy Graham Bensinger The last time ESPN.com caught up with ultramarathon runner Charlie Engle, he had just finished running across Africa's Sahara Desert More Finding Work Email Overwhelming Their Lives - Sep 25, 2008 CityNews,I was in the middle of the Sahara Desert!" he recalls. So who's most prone to this email addiction? Anyone making more than $75000 a year and working longer Opportunity of a Lifetime! - Sep 22, 2008 American Chronicle,Your territory will consist of the eastern half of the Sahara Desert. "Lots of travel." You´ll be driving back and forth between Ohio and Indiana at least The Tuareg export - Sep 19, 2008 Mail & Guardian Online,This is born out by the fact that he often wonders why foreigners travel 80km into the Sahara desert to listen to music. "People tell me that it is a European tourists are kidnapped in Egypt - Sep 22, 2008 The Associated Press...safari to one of the remotest sites in Egypt deep in the Sahara desert and were taken across the border into neighboring Sudan, officials said Monday. Two African ‘Lost Tribes’ Discovered Deep in the Sahara - Aug 29, 2008 EcoWorldly,The two tribes lived there in a plum lakeside community when the Sahara Desert, as we know it, was a lush, green country, but were separated by effects of Giant Mirrors Tap Sun, Subsidies in Europe's Clean Power Bid - Sep 24, 2008 BloombergHe's devised an audacious plan to erect fields of mirrors in the Sahara Desert and connect North African countries to Europe's power grid across the Nurse's Sahara trek for charity - Sep 14, 2008 This is Nottingham,But after seeing off the illness the mother-of-two is joining a trek across the Sahara Desert for the charity Scope, to aid its work tackling cerebral palsy Map-maker Jethro Lennox plots changing landscapes of our world - Sep 14, 2008 Glasgow Sunday Mail,The spread of the Sahara desert as the world heats up. The latest edition features a new country - the republic of Kosovo - and new man-made structures such Racing across the Sahara - Sep 3, 2008 University of Wisconsin Badgers,For one former Wisconsin rower, racing across the Sahara Desert might be the answer. Seriously. Susan Jones, a May 2008 Wisconsin graduate, is going to do Charlie Engle Goes for Record Run Across America With SpinVox. - Sep 12, 2008 MarketWatchLast year, Engle completed a 4500-mile run for 111 consecutive days across the Sahara Desert in Africa. This run was chronicled in the documentary RUNNING A's on winning streak - finally - Aug 29, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,And because the A's are a Sahara Desert away from contention, it's hard to call any of their wins "epic" these days, but Kurt Suzuki certainly knows how to Carlie Engle's office: the great outdoors - Aug 31, 2008 Greensboro News Record,20, 2007, he and two others -- Ray Zahab of Canada and Kevin Lin of Taiwan -- became the first modern-day runners to cross the Sahara Desert. NEWS UPDATE: Couple died after leaving cooker on - Sep 24, 2008 This is Scunthorpe,AN elderly couple originally from Brigg died when the temperature in their house soared beyond those found in the Sahara desert. Pensioners Raymond (74) and EU sees security in Sahara gas pipeline - Piebalgs - Sep 9, 2008 guardian.co.uk,By Pete Harrison BRUSSELS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A giant gas pipeline carrying Nigerian gas north across the Sahara desert could help the European Union Austrian tourist siege goes 200 days - Sep 9, 2008 Wiener Zeitung,Monday was the 200th day the Austrian tourists taken hostage in the Sahara desert had been held in captivity. Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51, Study: Work e-mail use creeps into off hours - Sep 24, 2008 The Associated PressI was in the middle of the Sahara Desert!" Soto said. Checking work e-mail is considered much more important for people making more than $75000 a year than Sanlu milk powder covers the Sahara - Sep 19, 2008 Danwei,Sanlu's September 2008 TV commercial for Western media, with the copy "For the past 15 years we have enough sale volume covered the entire sahara desert". Rugby pro bound for Africa - Sep 5, 2008 St. Albans Observer,By Alexandra Barham » A RUGBY coach is swapping the pitch for the dusty plains of Africa as he gears up for a 150-mile trek across the Sahara desert. General Mohamed Ould Abd El Aziz. Photo/FILE - Sep 24, 2008 Daily Nation,Due to its geographical position partly in the midst of the Sahara desert and due to the composition of its population, made of “white� moors and “black� Ramadan reminds of kindness to travelers - Sep 23, 2008 Memphis Commercial Appeal,Streaks of light illuminated the footprints pointing the way to the top of the dunes in the Sahara Desert, where we settled to watch the sunrise on the Founder's Day convo features paleontologist alumnus - Sep 23, 2008 Drury Mirror,...representing both new and previously identified species. Conrad has been on major paleontological digs to the Sahara Desert, Arctic, and Andes Mountains. Nomads unite in Etran Finatawa - Sep 7, 2008 Boston Globe,...event on the world-music circuit, held in Timbuktu, Mali, and crucially, an outlet for musicians from impoverished nations of the Sahara desert region. Desert juniors II - Sep 16, 2008 Mining MX,The mine is in the Sahara desert, which at 9,1m sq km encroaches on 10 north African countries, has the obvious problem of ensuring an adequate water supply Once, a service club had a crazy, impractical dream - Sep 19, 2008 Northumberland Today,After a very long and weary day in the Sahara desert helping to immunize children against the polio virus, Bob was feeling tired and disturbed; Do something - Sep 23, 2008 Observer Online,Two of her children were murdered in front of her, she was forced from her home, fled across the Sahara desert, and ended up in a crowded, unsafe refugee Airliner Hijacked from Dafur - Aug 29, 2008 Portland Observer,...including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya. Terry in mountain mission - Aug 29, 2008 Liverpool Echo,Terry Hall, 74, has been going on fundraising walks for 20 years and his previous treks include the Sahara Desert, Mont Blanc and Mount Kilimanjaro, Al-Qaida in North Africa issues new threats - Sep 22, 2008 The Associated PressHe cited as proof US plans for military bases in the Sahara Desert to fight trafficking and terrorism, and a French-backed effort to create an alliance [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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