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Imagine the Sahara with ocean waves lapping at its shores. It was a real plan suggested by a French army captain in the 1870s, and it almost came to pass. According to research by paleoclimatologists Peter deMenocal and Jessica Tierney published in Nature Education Knowledge, the Sahara was really covered in lakes and grassland roughly…

A Malian army convoy leaving the strategic northern town of Anefis was attacked on Saturday morning by Tuareg separatists, military and security officials said.