The Sahel—a belt of semi-arid scrubland running 1,000+ miles from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, 200-300 miles wide, including Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—is one of the world's most unstable and harshest regions, with endemic coups, very little rainfall, and difficulty growing crops that create chronic instability.
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“very little rain um incredibly hard to grow crops um absolute subsidence um it's it's one of the world's hardest harshest places and it's one of the world's most unstable places and it's called The Coup belt because there's been so many coups”
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:25:34 AM
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