But no newspaper denied that there is an unfair distribution of wealth and development between the verdant, oil-producing south and the arid, agricultural north.

The crucible of human evolution, Boaz suggests, may have been provided by fragmenting forests in an increasingly arid north Africa at that time.

Other roads range from all-weather laterite surfaces to grated dirt or sand Pistes, especially in the arid north.

Development was resumed in all areas of the country, including the hitherto neglected and largely undeveloped semi-arid or arid north.

Sera is a tourist destination in its infancy, 100,000 acres of virgin land in the arid north.

It is of major importance only in the relatively arid north and has not been earmarked for special treatment in Ghana's recovery program.

Sudan's arid north is mainly home to Arabic-speaking Muslims.

The north, less arid than the south, supports most of the few persons who live in the region and contains most of the desert's oases.

In Kenya, this means the arid north, a place where nomads have existed with their cattle for centuries.

Chadian troops drove the Libyans out of the arid north in a series of attacks between December 1986 and August 1987.