town but most of their adult males and the livestock was 10 to 15-miles away trying to find grass for their animals. And this caravan's carrying salt across the Sahara . Still do that.This picture's about ten years old but they still do.
And this is a river coming out of the Atlas Mountains out in the Sahara and if you get there on the right day -- it happens once about every 25 years or so -- you get snow. It's very lucky to catch snow on the Atlas-- on this part of the Atlas.
Always wanted to climb a tree to take a picture. Always liked kind of the elevated perspective. Sahara . That's the way it is.
Were I to ask you to name the great religions of the world, what continent's left out? Sub-Saharan Africa, as if the people south of the Islamic zone of the Sahara had no religious beliefs. Well, of course they did.
become advanced economies in many other parts of the world from large parts of South Asia Central America and sub-saharan Africa we don't see success we see tremendous failure in those parts of the world many people are no richer than their parents or grandparents were
a lot of other poor countries corruption violence and economic gangsters are also critically important in many parts of sub-saharan Africa rebel warlords have looted minerals and diamonds and smuggle them in order to fund our militia groups plunging their countries into war and chaos other
interact with you a little bit more more individually if you have some questions even about how you might engage sub-saharan africa in a more direct way so and if yeah we'll see how that goes all right okay thanks anybody anybody
I'm thinking me? Me? It's across the Sahara Desert.
So it's not that simple, right? This is the Western Sahara . This is Saharan dust which is really important for these processes.
countries. I guarantee you ten stories. It's gonna cost you two thousand dollars a story and here are the ten stories." And I made up ten stories. I'd left high school semester early and driven in a truck across the sub-Sahara in Africa, so I was familiar with Africa, or sub-Saharan Africa. And the story I did was I went into Somalia in the early days of the famine there, which was, there was a famine back in '92.
They all thought it was done in Photoshop, too. The central Sahara . It's in northern Chad. And this is in, uh, Namib Desert in the southwest coast of Africa.
and in Creosote they space each other out because of how much water their roots need to -- to survive. Caravan crossing the Sahara . This is the vegetable garden of Timbuktu in Mali. Center pivot irrigation system growing tomatoes in Saudi Arabia. They drill down into the fossil water that
is that one thing that is common to say parts of sub-Saharan Africa in 2020, 2021, uh Indonesia and Mexico in say 2015 and countries like the US, UK, Australia
And there has been proper experimental research done out in the field. So, in one study of sub-Saharan Africa, they found that prevalence or that the share of young people who used Facebook was associated with lower birth rates and more steeply falling birth rates.
As men-- we see in research-- acquire more experience about how investing works, they tend to reduce their level of risk, and the opposite It's not sub-Saharan Africa.
The average English person uses 12 tons of CO2 a year, the average American 20 tons, the average Saudi 28 tons, and the average sub-Saharan African uses 4 tons. So as I said before, we all use different amount of CO2 on average.
This is the Western Sahara . This is Saharan dust which is really important for these processes. So all of this dust that goes from this Earth to the ocean and up in the atmosphere help in these cloud formation
From this 2.4 billion people, 70% of them live in rural areas, with a large majority in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Obviously, these folks live in these situations.
They usually use Western Union or MoneyGram today, and they get charged really high fees. So migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, pay an average of 9.81% when they send money home. The global average is 7.45%, which itself is really high.
Something like that. He set a deadline. From sub-Saharan Africa, where it's already too hot, really, some parts of the year.
And the treadmill is crazy. over the Saharan Desert right here and it's probably dust and sand particulates that's just floating around in the atmosphere.
Right? And it's a different math than we should be using in our own companies and when we're designing things like play pumps for water access in sub-Saharan Africa. So when you're a venture capitalist, the way it works is you make a bunch of investments and you only need one of them to go well.
parts of sub-Saharan Africa, what are the implications?
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Let alone Sub-Saharan Africa.
But still across Sub-Saharan Africa less than half of the people who need to take the antiretrovirals get them which means the other half will ultimately die and many of them are in their productive
Morocco Ethiopia Nigeria and Syria so these countries come from all over some in Eastern Europe some of the Middle East some in sub-saharan Africa what ties them together is on average according to the corruption perception surveys these are very high corruption countries on average and when their diplomats when no one's looking in New York City their diplomats are are willing and eager to to break the rules
documentation initially but it's a similar concept of it yeah anyone else been in sub-saharan Africa okay well I mean South Africa is a special case so you know they've had
And this is called the Eye of Sahara .
of the people of the Western Sahara , which is illegally occupied by Morocco after an invasion in 1975.
So you could go to cultures in Sahara and in North African region that have absolutely no Venn diagram
Making the trek across the Sahara .
And that's what the Sahara and the area around Timbuktu offered.
and the hot weather animals live in Sahara Square, and the mice characters live in Little Rodentia.
except for the bleakest parts of the Sahara Desert.
That's the Ross Sea in the background that the shadow of the volcano's casting on. The peak of edge of the Empty Quarter in Yemen. This is in the central Sahara , in Chad. Same place. This is in the Namibian coast. It's a freighter that went ground about 30 years ago and the ocean -- the beach has been accreting so now it's about
It's an unusual volcanic formation in the Libyan Sahara . Salt lake in the Libyan Sahara . Same kinda -- same situation you'd find in China. You can drink water out of your footprints as you walk around the lake.
in Egypt and of the Sahara Desert to bloom and to produce a whole cornucopia of food, eighty-five percent of the water in Egypt, in the Nile and in the canals comes from Ethiopia
Change number one is the center of gravity in population in the world are going to shift away from East Asia and towards South Asia, especially India, and also from Europe towards sub-Saharan Africa. Here in the United States, Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand, the changes are not going to be as dramatic as those other parts of the world.
It's a problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, for example.
And there are places in sub-Saharan Africa, especially South Africa, where, for example, 67% of women who go to a clinic for pregnancy tests
Then river traffic coming up from sub-Saharan Africa bringing everything from kola nuts, to slaves-- it was a big slave trading port-- to gold.
These red countries down here sub-Saharan Africa.
But we know that in sub-Saharan African countries, this problem is more acute.
We're almost always under-covering Sub-Saharan Africa.
It's a phenomenon of sub-Saharan Africa, that Mediterranean basin, South Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
recipient of aid in sub-Saharan Africa, what if we could kick total butt on sustainable development and be the leader for that?
people in college across sub-Saharan Africa will run their countries one day.
Nearly 15 million children in Sub-Saharan Africa have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
And even in countries in several Sub-Saharan Africa that claim to have universal free primary education, they don't.