There was only one last year, expressing "grave concern" about food supplies in the Sahel region of Africa, notably Niger.

去年也只有一个，表示“严重关切”在非洲的粮食供应，特别是尼日尔的萨赫勒地区。

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The harvests in the Sahel region of West Africa have been severely damaged.

蝗灾使西非撒黑尔地区的收成遭受了严重的打击。

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Lake Chad, located in the Sahel region near the Sahara, was the fourth largest lake in Africa in the 1960s and had an area of more than 10,000 square miles.

乍得湖位于撒哈拉沙漠附近的萨赫勒地区，在1960年代曾经是非洲的第四大湖泊，而且拥有超过1万平方英里的面积。

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The hostage crisis in Algeria is a "terrible warning" that the conflict in Mali "is not a matter between France and one of its former colonies in West Africa" but "a sign of the growing destabilization of the whole Sahel region, " the paper says.

BBC: Press links Algerian crisis with Mali operation