Dynamic Africa
Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".
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Based in Cape Town, South Africa
From Lagos, Nigeria
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The Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD; French: Communauté des Etats Sahélo-Sahariens; Arabic: تجمع دول الساحل والصحراء) aims to create a free trade area within Africa. There are questions with regard to whether its level of economic integration qualifies it under the Enabling clause.
CEN-SAD was established in February 1998 by six countries, but since then its membership has grown to 28. One of its main goals is to achieve economic unity through the implementation of the free movement of people and goods in order to make the area occupied by member states a free trade area.
At the international level, CEN-SAD gained observer status at the UN General Assembly in 2001 and concluded association and cooperation accords with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and with UN specialized agencies and institutions such as UNDP, WHO, UNESCO, FAO, and the Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel.
All CEN-SAD member countries are also participating in other African economic unions, that have the aim to create a common African Economic Community. The envisioned Free Trade Area of CEN-SAD would be hard to practically implement, because it is overlapping with the envisioned customs unions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ECCAS and COMESA and other trade blocs more advanced in their integration.
List of Members:
Founding members (1998)
- Burkina Faso
- Chad
- Libya
- Mali
- Niger
- Sudan
Subsequent members
- 1999 - Central African Republic
- 1999 - Eritrea
- 2000 - Djibouti
- 2000 - Gambia
- 2000 - Senegal
- 2001 - Egypt
- 2001 - Morocco
- 2001 - Nigeria
- 2001 - Somalia
- 2001 - Tunisia
- 2002 - Benin
- 2002 - Togo
- 2004 - Ivory Coast
- 2004 - Guinea-Bissau
- 2004 - Liberia
- 2005 - Ghana
- 2005 - Sierra Leone
- 2007 - Comoros
- 2007 - Guinea
- 2008 - Kenya
- 2008 - São Tomé and Príncipe
Former members
2008–2012 - Mauritania
A camel resting in the shade, Gharb Sehel, #Aswan #Nubia
جمل يستريح في ظل شجرة، غرب سهيل #أسوان #نوبة
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EVENT: Saharan Frequencies at BAM (Mar 4—Mar 18, 2013)
Inspired by the aesthetic of the intrepid recordists at film and record label Sublime Frequencies, this series explores the sounds of North Africa as captured by two of the label’s key directors Hisham Mayet and Olivia Wyatt and their influences.
Presented in conjunction with Mic Check on BAM’s mainstage.
Explaining the Sahel drought problem
Millions of people in the Sahel region are facing severe food shortages because of drought.
The Sahel is a dry stretch of land south of the Sahara that stretches across 12 countries. Several of them have declared food emergencies, including Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso.
Al Jazeera reports in-depth on the current situation across the Sahel.
Infestations of locusts could destroy farmers’ efforts to replenish food stocks in the Sahel, an area suffering drought and hunger.
Northern Niger and Mali – areas already hit by a devastating food crisis and civil conflict – are facing a new threat in the form of locusts.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning that swarms of locusts are moving south from Libya and Algeria, and that early rains across the Sahel have led to the sprouting of vegetation that the insectscan feed on.
The warning comes as farmers across the Sahel prepare to start their annual crop planting season in the hope that a good harvest could replenish food stocks.
UNICEF Presents: Memories of Sahel (Part 1)
Memories of the Sahel is part of a new initiative by UNICEF called #SahelNOW that seeks to raise awareness about the looming food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa.
Going against the grain of traditional ‘poverty porn’-centered awareness campaigns, in this segment, UNICEF interviews Africans living in the diaspora (the US specifically) who give firsthand accounts of what life was like growing up in the Sahel as well as their concerns for future generations of Sahelians.
(Part 2)
Situated in the north western Ghanaian village of Larabanga, the mud-built historical Larabanga Mosque’s aesthetics carry the trademark Sudano-Sahelian architectural styles that originated in Western Sudan, and is similar to that of the Great Mosque of Djenne in Mali and the Agadez Grand Mosque of Niger.
Dating as far back as the 17th century, the Larabanga Mosque is said to be Ghana’s oldest mosque.
