April 18 (UPI) --An extreme once-in-a-century heat wave in Africa's Sahel and western regions that saw temperatures soar to as high as 48.5 degrees Celsius at the end of March and early April was ...
The Sahel region of Africa is the "epicentre of global terrorism" and now, for the first time, accounts for "over half of all terrorism-related deaths", according to the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).