trans-Saharan

The fighting has also disrupted commerce across the region and has suspended work on a thousand-kilometer trans-Saharan highway between Libya and Niger.

Niger: Libyan Conflict Impacting Sahel Security 2011

The fighting has also disrupted commerce across the region and has suspended work on a thousand-kilometer trans-Saharan highway between Libya and Niger.

Niger: Libyan Conflict Impacting Sahel Security 2011

The Twareg (Imajaghen) of the Aïr once dominated one of the most important trans-Saharan trade routes and were undoubtedly hurt by the opening of coastal routes.

Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

However, the trans-Saharan slave trade took Africans involuntarily outside Africa.

African blessings 2007

Arab traders use trans-Saharan trade route to transport slaves, gold, ivory.

A survey of West Africa: a Chronology 2007

Total SA and Eni SpA have expressed interest in joining the trans-Saharan pipeline project.

African Nations Sign Deal for Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline 2009

The African Diaspora was born out of voluntary and involuntary movement of Africans to various areas of the world since ancient times, but involuntary migration through the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades accounts for most of the black presence outside of Africa today.

African blessings 2007

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria's state oil company said Nigeria, Algeria and Niger signed an agreement to create a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline to ship gas to Europe.

African Nations Sign Deal for Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline 2009

: The European Union, increasingly anxious to reduce its dependence on Russian gas following the conflict in Georgia, has offered Nigeria financial and political backing for a $21 billion trans-Saharan pipeline to pump its gas directly to Europe.

Exigencies 2008

SELIGSOHN: I had met Wole Soyinka a number of times previously and decided that he was really the ideal person and it just turned out that through serendipity that he was actually working on his own research project related to the trans-Saharan slave trade so he was delighted to get involved in our project.

CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2008 2008