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Annual desert wind delivers bigger chill
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - For a few weeks each year, the shifting
winds roil southward out of the Sahara Desert, drying out West
Africa's air and darkening its skies with sandy grit. The dusty wind
grounds planes, coats palm trees in yellow dust and sends
inhabitants accustomed to blustery equatorial weather huddling
together against an uncommon nighttime chill.
The Saharan wind known as the harmattan is an annual event. No
records exist that measure its severity, but Nigerians say this ye...
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The harmattan, an uncommon nighttime chill.(N)
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; Byline: EDWARD HARRIS By Edward Harris The Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria For a few weeks each year, the shifting winds roil southward out of the Sahara Desert, drying out West Africa's air and darkening its skies with sandy grit. The dusty wind grounds planes, coats palm trees in yellow dust
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; General 1795 Chilson, P., Athens, GA University of Georgia Press Riding the demon: on the road in West Africa, 1998, 195 pp 1796 Macintosh, D., Travels in the white man's grave, Glasgow Neil Wilson 1998, 192 pp 1797 Sahel, E.G., The Positive management of conflicts in West Africa, Community
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West Africa now key cocaine hub for Europe.(WORLD)(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
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; Byline: Tristan McConnell Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Accra, Ghana -- Two British high-school girls now face three years in a juvenile detention center in the West African country of Ghana after being convicted Wednesday of trying to smuggle more than $600,000 of cocaine to
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Bayesian Rainfall Variability Analysis in West Africa along Cross Sections in Space-Time Grid Boxes
Journal of Climate
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INVESTMENT IN DEEPWATER WEST AFRICA MAY INCREASE 17-FOLD IN NEXT FIVE YEARS
Hart's Petroleum Finance Week
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