How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence
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Habitat loss has pushed the dama gazelle to the fringes of the sub-Saharan desert.
— Lee Powell, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023 -
Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023 -
For the first time, the world is starting to roll out malaria vaccines to children in sub-Saharan Africa.
— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Aug. 2024 -
Most are Black and can trace their ancestry to parts of the world spanning sub-Saharan Africa through the Mediterranean.
— Alexander Tin, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023 -
The biggest increases in lost sleep were in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.
— Olivia Rudgard / Bloomberg, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Malaria is the leading cause of death among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
— Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023 -
The decrease in aid for sub-Saharan Africa from rich countries last year compared with 2021.
— Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The second sub-Saharan winning city has shown a steady climb since first appearing on the list three years ago.
— Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024 -
Apartheid is something largely left in the past for the 70 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa that is under the age of 30.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023 -
For instance, sub-Saharan Africa sees 56% more heat waves.
— Ben Geman, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 -
These pumps could supply a third of the unmet water needs of small farmers, who produce most of the food across sub-Saharan Africa.
— Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024 -
Hippos, which are native sub-Saharan Africa, can reach weights of up to 4.5 tons and are known to be aggressive.
— Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2023 -
That showed the most extreme rains keep happening in sub-Saharan Africa, at least through December 2021, the end of the data.
— CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023 -
In sub-Saharan Africa, 19 countries are unable to make debt payments or are at high risk of reaching that point.
— Mark Suzman, Foreign Affairs, 11 July 2024 -
For decades, Egypt has been a refuge for migrants from sub-Saharan Africa trying to escape war or poverty.
— Samy Magdy, Fortune Europe, 17 Mar. 2024 -
Death counts have remained low throughout sub-Saharan Africa for most of the pandemic.
— Jeneen Interlandi, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Historically, this has been the dietary trend for much of sub-Saharan Africa, but this is starting to change— one egg at a time.
— Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The rates are a bit better for hepatitis C, with less success in sub-Saharan African countries.
— Danjuma Adda, STAT, 16 June 2024 -
The rates are similar across the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and people in this region are being affected at younger ages than those in other parts of the world.
— Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023 -
That's more than the domestic water use of over 330 million people in the rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa.
— Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Most live in places with low levels of natural iodine, such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
— Harriet Marsden, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024 -
Two-thirds of this population live in sub-Saharan Africa.
— IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2024 -
Servals are medium-sized wild cats native to sub-Saharan Africa.
— Zoe Sottile, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023 -
The president had long promised to visit sub-Saharan Africa, but the trip was delayed until his final weeks in office.
— Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024 -
Currently, there is no licensed vaccine against the X strain, which may be the cause of meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023 -
Niger is a key partner of the European Union in helping curb the flow of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.
— Reuters, NBC News, 29 July 2023 -
The world’s fastest growing music market is in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the main industry body.
— Declan Walsh, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023 -
Just over a year later, the agency has been forced to backtrack, with a far more serious epidemic brewing across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
— David Cox, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2024 -
Its Goncourt was seen as a coup in the world of French letters, which had never before conferred its highest recognition on a writer from sub-Saharan Africa.
— Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 -
The study did not include sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, two areas also affected by dengue transmission.
— Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
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