Definitions
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- adjective of or relating to or situated in the region south of the Sahara Desert
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Examples
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Last time I checked, Angola had become the largest exporter of oil from sub-saharan Africa.
Global Voices in English » Ghana: Global discussion of Obama’s visit to Ghana 2009
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The French have done and still do a whole bunch of ops in sub-saharan Africa over the past century or two.
Matthew Yglesias » Do NATO Members Spend Too Little on Defense 2010
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This dismal statistic, however, compares favorably with sub-saharan Africans whose average IQ is a shockingly low 70.
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Less-corrupt countries, like the Anglosphere and Scandinavia, have _huge_ advantages over the most corrupt countries (eg. much of sub-saharan Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh).
The Cause of Corruption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The French have done and still do a whole bunch of ops in sub-saharan Africa over the past decade or two. beejeez says:
Matthew Yglesias » Do NATO Members Spend Too Little on Defense 2010
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If the United States stops guaranteeing that Israel will have a military advantage over its neighbors, stops bribing and expending resources to maintain authoritarian dictators and stops giving Israel more aid per capita than any other nation, more aid than all of sub-saharan Africa, then Israel cannot continue as “upholding and protecting” its identity as a Jewish state.
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Within eyesight of the Capitol building itself are some of the worst rates of infection -- among African Americans -- outside of sub-saharan Africa.
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Afghanistan continues to be mired in tremendous conflict, still ranked 6th on Foreign Policy's failed states index, with the lowest GDP per capita outside of sub-saharan Africa.
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Afghanistan continues to be mired in tremendous conflict, still ranked 6th on Foreign Policy's failed states index, with the lowest GDP per capita outside of sub-saharan Africa.
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One thing is for sure: AIDS certainly isn't going away anytime soon and has already decimated sub-saharan Africa, which contains almost 70% of the 33 million HIV-infected people in the world.
Leigh Blake: Confessions of a Prize Fighter Leigh Blake 2010
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