How to Use sub-Saharan in a Sentence

sub-Saharan

adjective
  • 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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