We are in a swamp now; in a malarial jungle.

However, they were also a malarial jungle, and the British had a very difficult time keeping their troops healthy.

United Nations officials tell of Cambodians who crossed minefields or who traveled through malarial jungles by oxcart or on foot to reach registration stations.

This course was designed specifically for journalists in what Centurion defines broadly as "hostile environments" - war zones, malarial jungles, cold places, crashing helicopters.

Deep, malarial jungles protected the region from getting too much European interest early on - most of the first settlers died of tropical diseases.

Others cleared the humid malarial jungles of south Bhutan to develop the nation's agricultural lands.

Rural slaves including many Lhotshampa, who had developed malarial jungles into productive agricultural lands, feared eviction and deportation.

Unfazed by the malarial jungle, Nate Thayer would not give up looking for Pol Pot.

It is not just their passionate hatred of the Vietnamese that has kept the Khmer Rouge together in the malarial jungles for 10 years.

The continent's obstacles are huge, however, and politics is a bigger one than poverty, malarial jungles or the snows of Kilimanjaro.