The Saharan government was an example of active democracy for the entire region.

Photo of Aminatou Haidar by saharauiak

The desert cities of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu quickly fell to them.

(Signed) Janet Lenz Director Saharawi Programs USA

South of these mountains lies a barren desert region known as the Hamad.

The Saharan Republic had been recognized by a growing number of countries, including South Africa.

More than 250 associations were involved in promoting the Saharan cause in Spain.

About 76 countries had recognized the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.

The blogger says that the most important mission for the station should be to advance the Sahrawi case among other Arab countries The most important role is to shed light on our national cause to our Arab brothers.

Spanish associations working in solidarity with the Saharan cause had had some success, resisting pressure exerted on them.

Kuwait estimates that over 2,000 square kilometres of its desert areas were damaged.

Janet Lenz, Saharawi Programs USA (A C.4 60 5 Add.25)

Manuel Nicolás González Díaz, Asociación Saharaui de Derechos Humanos (A C.4 60 5 Add.20)

Gajmoula Ebbi, COREFASA (A C.4 60 5 Add.27)

Cordylus cataphractus ), also known as the armadillo lizard, golden armadillo lizard or armadillo spiny tailed lizard, is a girdled lizard endemic to desert areas along the western coast of South Africa.

From attacks against Western governments to ethnic clashes in remote desert oases, Libya s revolution is faltering.

The Nilo Saharan language family consists of more than a hundred languages spoken by 30 million people.

It called upon Member States to follow the example of South Africa and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in officially recognizing the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.

The Moroccan Government did not want the international community to tell it what it should do with regard to the status of what it called its Saharan provinces .

And then after that, there are all sorts of compounds and elements that we can extract, like phosphates, that we need to get back into the desert soils to fertilize them.

Just 60 to 100 of these cheetahs remain in the world, and their only home is Iran s desert plateau.

Adopting an interactive approach, the exhibit will portray the unique fauna and flora of desert ecosystems, as well as the adaptation strategies developed by their respective communities.

For the Saharan people, promotion of the Saharan culture amounted to a struggle for the rights of which they had been deprived for so many years.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Dedenis (Asociación de Amigos del Pueblo Saharaui) took a place at the petitioners' table.

And all the sort of excess freshwater wastewater is filtered organically into the landscape, gradually transforming the desert island into sort of a green, lush landscape.

A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region.

In December 2008, the Czech Air Force wanted to train helicopter pilots for desert conditions for the upcoming mission in Afghanistan.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. González Díaz (Asociación Saharaui para la Defensa de Derechos Humanos) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Some of the main projects in the more desertic areas include the treatment of salty and brackish water, drainage and irrigation and increased well drilling.

Gravely concerned at the extent of the proliferation, illicit circulation of and traffic in small arms in the States of the Saharo Sahelian subregion,

That was the conviction that lay behind the many sacrifices that Morocco had made to bring literacy, irrigation and port facilities, and consequent employment, to its Saharan peoples.

In the present claim, Saudi Arabia states that 438 square kilometres of its desert area outside the core and peripheral areas were damaged by military activities during Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

When tribal clashes erupted in the remote desert town of Kufra early last year, the council dispatched the Libya Shield Force, not LNA units, to quell the unrest.

The leaders had tried to mask the Saharan tragedy and the atrocities committed in Moroccan prisons by concocting a misleading image of Morocco, presenting it as a country on the road to democracy and respectful of human rights.

In Egypt, IFAD is currently financing the reclamation of desert to improve the irrigation infrastructure, agricultural research and finance targeted to land labourers.

In fact, Siberia is not much different from China s own almost empty mountain desert borderlands, where even agriculture is a daunting task.

It is unlikely to regain its former strength because of severe water shortages in this desert region as well as ongoing weakness in the local economy.

According to Syria, sheep normally find food in the desert during the winter and spring seasons, grazing on desert plants and on concentrated feed when necessary.

So his thought was that flooding in the north of Africa actually brought those coniferous trees down tens of thousands of years ago, and what resulted was this remarkable adaptation to this unique desert environment.

Letter dated 22 September 2005 from Janet Lenz, Director, Saharawi Programs  USA, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

Saudi Arabia further states that the soot degraded the desert ecosystems and that this continues to pose risks to livestock, flora and fauna that rely on the water in these basins.

Letter dated 22 September 2005 from Manuel Nicolás González Díaz, Asociación Saharawi Derechos Humanos, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

Among the many places that she lived, Chopra has fond memories as a child of playing in the valleys of Leh, in the cold northwestern Indian desert region of Jammu and Kashmir.

This agreement provides coordinates for use in delineating the land and maritime border, including the section in the eastern desert region of Yemen that potentially contains significant amounts of oil.

Mr. González Díaz (Asociación Saharaui para la Defensa de Derechos Humanos) observed that the Western Sahara dispute was only one aspect of the ongoing decolonization of North Africa.