Economics & Stability
This one word is used to describe the general state of governments in the region.
What is unstable?
This is the primary branch of Islam practiced by the majority of North Africans.
What is Sunni Islam?
This is the process of Sahel land slowly turning into desert.
What is desertification?
This North African dish, often cooked in a clay pot of the same name, is a staple alongside couscous.
What is tajine?
These two countries are specifically noted for working toward renewable energy.
What are Egypt and Morocco?
Unlike their neighbors with failing centralized economies, these two countries have the "best economies" thanks to private companies.
What are Morocco and Tunisia?
This ancient form of Christianity still survives in Egypt today.
What is Coptic Christianity?
This "greatest concern" for the region involves maintaining a supply of this resource.
What is clean, fresh water?
In some countries within the Sahel, this many different languages may be spoken within their borders.
What is over 100?
This is the unusual way the Sahara helps the Amazon rainforest.
What is carrying African dust to it?
90% of the people in the Sahel engage in this type of farming, where they grow only what they need to survive.
What is subsistence farming?
In local belief, these are ancient spirits that cause harm and require a shaman to remove.
What are Djinn?
These are two human-caused reasons why water quality is declining in the region.
What are raw sewage dumping and excess fertilizer/chemical runoff?
In the southern parts of the region, marital customs change, including this practice, where men have more than one wife.
Name two of three "proposed solutions" to help the region's environment and people.
These are three "proposed solutions" to help the region's environment and people.
Egypt's economy is projected to "boom" if the country can stay stable and continue doing this with its money.
What is aggressively paying debt?
This North African country saw its Christian population jump from less than 10,000 in 2008 to over 500,000 in 2019.
What is Algeria?
In addition to human abuse of land, this "natural" factor contributes to desertification.
What are Earth's natural cycles?
This is a staple food for many in the region, usually served with vegetables.
What is fish?
In 1953, this country discovered a vast water aquifer, but civil war has prevented its use.
What is Libya?
Tribal loyalties in the region often trump these types of loyalties, leading to corruption.
What are federal loyalties?
Because textbook religion is often mixed with traditional spiritist religions, many people also value these individuals to tell the future.
What are fortune tellers?
These two types of "plagues" or declines are currently affecting the native land and animals.
What are locusts and declining wildlife?
This soup-like dish is mentioned as a traditional food alongside Tajine and Couscous.
Daraba
These two factors (one human, one natural) have caused Lake Chad to disappear.
What are over-irrigation and decreased average rainfall?