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  • The village of Sangha (Sanga or Songo), on the crest of the Bandiagara escarpment, lies at the center of the sanctuary.

    Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali 2009

  • More frequently, though, from the Songo River flats below camp, it would be the screams, and under the Southern Cross I would see the moon-washed elephants bumping one another as they crowded around the salt lick.

    Hunting Scared 2006

  • Landlocked-salmon fishing meant trolling smelt-imitation streamers and bucktails with evocative names for a young boy -- Gray Ghost, Warden's Worry, Supervisor, Dark Edson Tiger, Black Nose Dace -- over dropoffs along Sebago's rock-strewn shoreline, around the Dingley Islands, and back and forth across the mouth of the Songo River.

    Twiggling 2002

  • Situated west of Uije, Songo was the scene of heavy fighting late last year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Earlier Friday, the FAA announced the recapture of Songo, a town providing access to the strategic city of Uije some 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Luanda.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Songo, Maquela do Zombo, Quitexe and Puri, and were still fighting over several areas in Uige and Cuanza Norte provinces.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • On Tuesday UNITA took control of Songo, near the provincial capital of Uije, which many government officials had already abandoned to head for the capital, fearing an all-out assault by the officially demobilised rebels.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The water was rising at half-a-metre a day and to prevent it overflowing, all eight flood gates would have to be opened within the next couple of weeks, the newspaper's reporter at Songo, where dam wall is sited, quoted officials of the Hidroelectrica Cahora

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • "We pushed them right into the town of Songo and in the fighting two soldiers and a large number of civilians were killed," Major Ben

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • FREETOWN - The Sierra Leone army backed by Guinean troops beat back rebels from the town of Songo, cutting off a potential rebel infiltration route to the capital Freetown, field officers said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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