1. Neatly Label Each Country By Name
DOGSTAIL AFRICA MAP
Title: Problems in Africa
Key –Goes in grey area (left)
Sahel Region
Malnutrition
Famine
Ebola
AIDS
Conflict/War

2. Africa’s Sahel Region

3. Physical Geography
Sahel is based on climate, it does not abide by strict international borders
Transition zone between the northern Sahara Desert and the Savannas in the south
The Arabic word sāḥil ساحل literally means "shore, coast", describing the appearance of the vegetation of the Sahel as a coastline delimiting the sand of the Sahara.
PROBLEM: Increased Desertification

4. Vegetation - Sahel
Semiarid region - rainfall 12 to 20 inches per year. 
Covered in grassland & savanna, with areas of woodland and shrub land.
During the long dry season, many trees lose their leaves, and the predominantly annual grasses die.

5. A woman holds her malnourished baby at an intensive nutritional rehabilitation center in southern Niger.
More than one million children in the Sahel are at risk of severe malnutrition, Oxfam says, with a mix of drought, high food prices and conflict to blame for the crisis. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
Photograph: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images

8. Famine Top 10 (2002)

9. Somalia
2011

10. Ebola

11. Largest Reported Deaths in Africa

12. AIDS (Highest Percentages) – Page 546 Conflicts Using Page 549
Add to Africa Map
AIDS (Highest Percentages) – Page 546
Conflicts Using Page 549