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5 hours ago · The Saharides (Suess 1909; Şengör et al. 2020, 2021) form the Pan-African orogen east of the West African craton and north of the sub-Saharan craton. It extends eastward into the Arabian Shield and abuts against the Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic Al-Mahfid rocks (Windley et al. 1996 ; Whitehouse et al. 1998 ) and their subsurface equivalents ...
5 hours ago · Merolla (2017) has indicated that the academic study of Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa by Europeans developed with North Africa being conceptually subsumed within the Middle East and Arab world, whereas, the study of Sub-Saharan Africa was viewed as conceptually distinct from North Africa, and as its own region, viewed as inherently the same.
5 hours ago · The Sahara Desert, also known as “the Great Desert” in Arabic, stretches over northern Africa from the Atlantic Ocean eastward to the Red Sea and from the Mediterranean Sea southward to the Sahel, a sub-Saharan belt in Central Africa, with a surface area of 9 × 10 6 km 2. This vast expanse of the Sahara is approximately equivalent to one ...
1 day ago · Etymology. The name Sudan is a name given to a geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to eastern Central Africa.The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان), or the "Land of the Blacks" The term was used by Arab traders and travellers in the region to refer to the various indigenous black African cultures and societies ...
5 hours ago · Forms of slavery Multiple forms of slavery and servitude have existed throughout African history, and were shaped by indigenous practices of slavery as well as the Roman institution of slavery (and the later Christian views on slavery), the Islamic institutions of slavery via the Muslim slave trade, and eventually the Atlantic slave trade. Slavery was a part of the economic structure of ...
5 hours ago · Looking for international scholarships for women from Africa and developing countries? In today’s article, we bring you a comprehensive list of scholarships for women. This category includes scholarships strictly offered to women. These International Scholarships for Women are for Bachelors, Masters and PhD studies in addition to other opportunities such as Fellowships, Research and Training …
5 hours ago · 18.4 Discussion and Conclusion. This article aims at summarizing some parameters of seismicity and seismotectonic setting of North Africa, which is a wide region extending from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba in the East to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. This broad zone includes five countries (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco), each ...
