Al-Qaeda-linked fighters attacked the BP plant in the Sahara Desert on Wednesday, taking many workers hostage.
Nearly 2, 000 army personnel from Chad and Niger, with experience of fighting in the Sahara desert, are already helping consolidate the recent gains.
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The crisis started after hostage-takers attacked a gas plant at Tigantourine, near In Amenas, in the Sahara desert on Wednesday 16 January, Algerian officials said.
The best is in the Sahara desert, particularly in Niger's Air mountains, in the Tibesti mountains of northern Chad and southern Libya, and in south-east Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer range.
Twenty years later, Austrian astronomer Joseph von Littrow expanded on that idea, suggesting the excavation of huge trenches in the Sahara desert, which would be filled with kerosene and set ablaze.
The Algerian Interior Ministry also said that 107 foreign workers and 685 local employees had been released, following the end of the hostage-taking by Islamist militants at the Western-run In Amenas gas facility, in the Sahara desert.
Al-Qaeda's current sanctuaries whether in Pakistan's tribal frontier, remote corners of Yemen, in Somalia or the Sahara desert are certainly a worry.
Foreign governments, which supported Mr Abdallahi's government as a bulwark of stability against the perceived threat of Islamist extremists in the Sahel, the swathe of Africa just to the south of the Sahara desert, reacted angrily.
Almost two years ago, I visited Burkina Faso in West Africa, just south of the Sahara desert.
But recent fighting in the Sahel the arid region just south of the Sahara Desert has sent jihadi fighters looking for new havens, raising fears that Tunisia is in their sights.
McRae filled in his time with appearances on the Dakar Rally across the Sahara Desert, and at the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, as well as intermittent one-off returns to the world rally championship.
Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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In west Africa, the land along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert is particularly fragile, and every year the growing population puts more pressure on the environment.
Yet, except in areas like that, bordering the Sahara, where blacks were traditionally enslaved by lighter-skinned desert peoples, slavery and the slave trade left no social stratification, and they figure little in popular consciousness today.
"Human rights defenders in need from the tomato fields of Florida to the slums of Port au Prince, the desert of Western Sahara and the still homeless of New Orleans have come to rely on her compassion, keen insight, judgment and support, " wrote Kennedy's mother, Ethel Kennedy.
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