2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, Round 20
(Saturday, 21 August 2010) Central Hawks 17.13 (115) d Claremont 9.4 (58) at Abbotsfield Park New Norfolk 23.18 (156) d Brighton 2.6 (18) at Pontville Oval Lindisfarne 15.11 (101) d Sorell 7.9 (51) at Pembroke Park Huonville Lions 14.12 (96) d Kingborough 10.11 (71) at Huonville Recreation Ground Dodges Ferry 13.15 (93) d Cygnet 3.3 (21) at Cygnet Oval Bye: Triabunna.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, First Elimination Final
(Saturday, 28 August 2010) Huonville Lions: 2.7 (19) | 9.9 (63) | 12.12 (84) | 19.17 (131) Lindisfarne: 3.1 (19) | 4.2 (26) | 5.2 (32) | 6.3 (39) Attendance: N/A at Huonville Recreation Ground.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, Second Elimination Final
(Saturday, 28 August 2010) Kingborough: 4.7 (31) | 5.10 (40) | 10.18 (78) | 16.23 (119) Central Hawks: 5.2 (32) | 7.8 (50) | 7.9 (51) | 12.12 (84) Attendance: N/A at Kingston Beach Oval.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, First Semi Final
(Saturday, 4 September 2010) Huonville Lions: 5.1 (31) | 5.5 (35) | 7.5 (47) | 7.7 (49) Kingborough: 3.2 (20) | 5.5 (35) | 5.7 (37) | 5.7 (37) Attendance: N/A at Huonville Recreation Ground.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, Second Semi Final
(Saturday, 4 September 2010) New Norfolk: 2.1 (13) | 5.5 (35) | 6.6 (42) | 8.12 (60) Dodges Ferry: 5.3 (33) | 5.5 (35) | 5.7 (37) | 6.8 (44) Attendance: N/A at Boyer Oval.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, Preliminary Final
(Saturday, 11 September 2010) Dodges Ferry: 3.5 (23) | 5.5 (35) | 10.11 (71) | 15.13 (103) Huonville Lions: 0.1 (1) | 4.2 (26) | 5.5 (35) | 8.8 (56) Attendance: N/A at KGV Football Park.


2010 SFL season, 2010 SFL Ladder, Grand Final
(Saturday, 18 September 2010) New Norfolk: 6.1 (37) | 8.9 (57) | 14.13 (97) | 20.18 (138) Dodges Ferry: 1.3 (9) | 5.4 (34) | 6.5 (41) | 10.6 (66) Attendance: 5,203 at KGV Football Park.


2010 SK Brann season
The 2010 season is SK Brann's 102nd season and their 24th consecutive season in the Norwegian Premier League.


2010 SK Brann season, Team kit
The team kits for the 2010 season were produced by Kappa and the main shirt sponsor was Sparebanken Vest. Other sponsors featured on the kit were BKK (shoulders), JM Byggholt (chest), AXA (left arm), Chess (upper back), Frydenbø (shorts) and Tide (socks).


2010 SK Brann season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 SK Brann season, Squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 SK Brann season, Results
The table below shows the results of all of SK Brann's official matches during the 2010-season.


2010 SK Brann season, Results
*Due to the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest behind held at Stabæks homeground Telenor Arena, this match and Stabæk's home fixture against IK Start was played at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo.


2010 SK Brann season, Statistics, Appearances and goals
The table shows matches and goals in the Norwegian Premier League and Norwegian Cup, and was last updated after the game against Odd Grenland on November 7, 2010


2010 SK Brann season, Statistics, Top goalscorers
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team
The 2010 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mustangs, led by third-year head coach June Jones, were members of Conference USA in the West Division and played their home games at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team
For the first time since the 1980s, the SMU Mustangs received a ranking point in both the pre-season AP Poll and the pre-season Coaches Poll


2010 SMU Mustangs football team
They finished the season 7–7, 6–2 in C-USA play and were co-champions of the west division with Tulsa. Due to their victory over Tulsa, the Mustangs represented the division in the 2010 Conference USA Championship Game where they were defeated by UCF 7–17. They were invited to the Armed Forces Bowl in their home stadium where they were defeated by Army 14–16.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Texas Tech
This game was the 48th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. The previous match-up was September 13, 2008, a game in which Texas Tech defeated SMU with a final score of 43–7. After the Mustangs lost in Lubbock, Texas Tech now leads the series 32–16. For his school-record 61 yard field goal, Matt Szymanski was named Conference USA Special Teams Player of the week.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, UAB
This game will mark the 4th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the UAB Blazers. They last met in the previous season on September 12, 2009, where SMU defeated UAB with a final score of 35 – 33. After the game, SMU now leads the series 4 – 0.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Washington State
This game will mark the 2nd meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Washington State Cougars. They last met in the previous season on September 19, 2009, where Washington State defeated SMU with a final score of 30 – 27. After the 2010 meeting, the series stands at 1 – 1. It was the first win for the Mustangs against a school from a BCS conference since they defeated Kansas 31-17 on September 2, 2000.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, TCU
This game will mark the 89th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs. They last met in the previous season on October 3, 2009, where TCU defeated SMU with a final score of 39 – 14. After the 2010 meeting, TCU leads the series 43 – 39 – 7. The two teams have a storied cross-town rivalry and will contend for the Iron Skillet trophy in the Battle for the Iron Skillet.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Rice
This game will mark the 88th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Rice Owls. They last met in the previous season on November 7, 2009, where SMU defeated Rice with a final score of 31 – 28. After the 2010 meeting, SMU now leads the series 47 – 40 – 1. The two teams have a storied cross-state rivalry and will contend for the Mayor's Cup trophy in the Battle for the Mayor's Cup. It was SMU's first win in Rice Stadium since 1986 before SMU received the Death Penalty for the 1987–88 seasons. Quarterback Kyle Padron was named Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week for his performance in the game which included three touchdowns, zero interceptions and 371 total yards.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Tulsa
This game will mark the 18th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. They last met in the previous season on October 31, 2009, where SMU defeated Tulsa with a final score of 27 – 13. After SMU won the 2010 matchup, SMU now leads the series 12 – 6.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Navy
This game will mark the 15th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Navy Midshipmen. They last met in the previous season on October 17, 2009, where Navy defeated SMU with a final score of 38 – 35. After the 2010 meeting, Navy leads the series 8 – 7. The two schools now compete for the Gansz Trophy named after Frank Gansz who played a significant role in both school's football programs.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Houston
This game will mark the 26th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Houston Cougars. They last met in the previous season on October 24, 2009, where Houston defeated SMU with a final score of 38 – 15. After the 2010 meeting, Houston leads the series 16 – 9 – 1.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Tulane
This game will mark the 19th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Tulane Green Wave. They last met in the previous season on November 28, 2009, where SMU defeated Tulane with a final score of 26 – 21. After the 2010 meeting, Tulane leads the series 12 – 7.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, UTEP
This game will mark the 18th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the UTEP Miners. They last met in the previous season on November 14, 2009, where SMU defeated UTEP with a final score of 35 – 31. After losing 14-28, SMU leads the series 10 – 8.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, Marshall
This game will mark the 4th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the Marshall Thundering Herd. They last met in the previous season on November 21, 2009, where Marshall defeated SMU with a final score of 34 – 31. After SMU won the 2010 match 31-17, the series is tied 2 – 2.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, East Carolina
This game will mark the 4th meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the East Carolina Pirates. They last met in the previous season on October 10, 2009, where SMU defeated East Carolina with a final score of 28 – 21. After SMU's 45-38 victory, the series is now tied at 2 – 2.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, Game summaries, UCF–Conference USA Football Championship Game
This game will mark the 3rd meeting of the SMU Mustangs and the UCF Knights. They last met in 2008, where UCF defeated SMU with a final score of 31 – 17. The all-time series stands in UCF's favor 2-0.


2010 SMU Mustangs football team, NFL Draft
6th Round, 178th Overall Pick by the Washington Redskins—Sr. WR Aldrick Robinson


2010 SUM U-17 Cup
The 2010 SUM U-17 Cup is the fourth edition of this tournament. The tournament began on July 23, 2010 and ran through July 29, 2010. All 16 MLS Academy teams participated in this tournament, with the winner of the tournament advancing to play in next year's prestigious Torneo Quixote youth tournament in Spain and the runner up joining the SuperGroup of the Dallas Cup.


2010 SUM U-17 Cup, Format
The tournament was organized as 4 groups of 4, with each team playing each other team once in their respective groups. Games consist of two 30 or 35 minute halves. Ties are broken by penalty shots, with the loser earning one point and the winner two. The winner of each group will advance to the semi-finals, and the winners to the finals.


2010 SUM U-17 Cup, Format
3- Points for a win2- Points for a shootout win1- Point for a shootout loss0- Points for a regulation loss


2010 SVL season
The 2010 Shakey's V-League (SVL) season was the seventh season of the Shakey's V-League. There were two indoor conferences for this season.


2010 SVL season, 1st Conference
The Shakey's V-League 7th Season 1st Conference was the eleventh conference of Shakey's V-League, a collegiate women's volleyball league in the Philippines founded in 2004. The conference started April 11, 2010.


2010 SVL season, 2nd Conference
The Shakey's V-League 7th Season Open Conference was the twelfth conference of Shakey's V-League, commenced on July 10, 2010 at The Arena in San Juan.


2010 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 Southwestern Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 10–13 at the CenturyTel Center in Bossier City, Louisiana. The winner of the tournament Arkansas-Pine Bluff receives the Southwestern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The Championship game will be broadcast on ESPNU.


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season
The 2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season was the second season for the Sacramento Mountain Lions and the first since relocating from the San Francisco Bay Area. The team finished with a 4–4 record and third in the league.


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Offseason
After unusually poor attendance at the California Redwoods' 2009 home games (the team was the only one to not have a single game with an attendance of over 10,000 fans), the Redwoods announced they would be leaving AT&T Park in San Francisco for either San Jose, California or Sacramento, California. Sacramento (and Hornet Stadium) was ultimately chosen, and the team was renamed the "Sacramento Mountain Lions" in a fan contest.


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Personnel, Roster
Rookies in italicsRoster updated November 15, 201052 Active, 4 Inactive


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Standings
y-denotes team has clinched a 2010 UFL Championship Game berthx-denotes team has been eliminated from championship contention


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Florida Tuskers
Over 20,000 Sacramento fans filed into Hornet Stadium to watch the Mountain Lions overcome a ten-point fourth-quarter deficit to become the first team to beat the Florida Tuskers in the regular season (snapping a seven-game win streak for Florida), 24–20. Daunte Culpepper completed 26 of 42 passes for 374 yards, three touchdowns, and an interception. This included the 33-yard go-ahead touchdown pass with thirty-one seconds left to play. Brooks Bollinger threw for his sixth career 300-yard game in the UFL with 328, completing 23 of 41 yards for a touchdown and an interception. The win gave the Mountain Lions (1–1) their first win since relocating to Sacramento and the loss gave Florida (1–1) their first ever even .500 record.


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Hartford Colonials
The thirty-four combined points at halftime was the most scored in the first thirty minutes in a game this season, and the Colonials also gave up the league's first ever punt return for a touchdown. But Hartford overcame an early 14-0 deficit to defeat the Sacramento Mountain Lions, 27-26 in front of a crowd of over 13,000 at Hornet Stadium.


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Hartford Colonials
After missing a potential game-winning field goal against Las Vegas the previous week, plus 34 and 22-yard field goals earlier in the game, Taylor Mehlhaff redeemed himself by nailing a 23-yarder as time expired to beat the Mountain Lions for only their second win of the season. (both coming against Sacramento)


2010 Sacramento Mountain Lions season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Las Vegas Locomotives
Sacramento attempted to avenge a 26-3 home loss earlier in the season to Las Vegas and did so with a 27-24 win on the road at Sam Boyd. The Mountain Lions survived a scare after the Locos tied the game at 24 in the fourth quarter, after Sacramento lead 21-0 in the second. Chase Clement was stellar in his debut for the Locos, throwing a touchdown and running for two in Las Vegas's comeback attempt that came up just a bit short. The Mountain Lions are the only team not named Florida to defeat the Locos.


2010 Sacramento State Hornets football team
The 2010 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season.


2010 Sacramento State Hornets football team
Sacramento State competed in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets were led by fourth-year head coach Marshall Sperbeck and played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6–5, 5–3 Big Sky). Sacramento State outscored its opponents 353–272 for the season. This was the first winning season for the Hornets since they finished 7–4 in the 2000 season.


2010 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL
No Sacramento State players were selected in the 2011 NFL Draft.


2010 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 2010, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


2010 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team
The 2010 Sacred Heart Pioneers football team represented Sacred Heart University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh year head coach Paul Gorham and played their home games at Campus Field. They were a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC), and they finished the season 4–7, 2–6 in NEC play.


2010 Safari Sevens
The 2010 Safari Sevens were the 15th annual edition of the Safari Sevens. The event attracted 21,000 spectators and the gate receipts were KSh 17 million (compared to 12 million from 15,000 spectators in 2009). Georgia, Botswana and Morocco pulled out at the last minute; Rwanda and Shujaa filled the gaps left by these withdrawals.


2010 Safata by-election
A by-election was held in the Safata constituency in Samoa on 14 May 2010. The by-election was precipitated by the disqualification from the Legislative Assembly of Palusalue Fa’apo II for joining the Tautua Samoa Party. The election was won by Fa’apo.


2010 Safeway Championship
The 2010 Safeway Championship (Manitoba men's provincial curling championship) was held February 10–14, 2010 at the T.G. Smith Centre in Steinbach, Manitoba. The winner went on to represent Manitoba at the 2010 Tim Hortons Brier in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


2010 Safeway Championship, Draw Brackets
32 team double knockout with playoff roundFour teams qualify each from A Event and B Event


2010 Sahel famine
A large-scale, drought-induced famine occurred in Africa's Sahel region and many parts of the neighbouring Sénégal River Area from February to August 2010. It is one of many famines to have hit the region in recent times.


2010 Sahel famine
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the north of Africa and the Sudanian savannas in the south, covering an area of 3,053,200 square kilometres. It is a transitional ecoregion of semi-arid grasslands, savannas, steppes, and thorn shrublands.


2010 Sahel famine
The neighbouring Sénégal River Area contains various vegetation types and covers parts or all of Mauritania, Mali, Senegal and Guinea. It has also had very low rainfall over the last year according to the UN, NGOs and the Senegal River Basin Development Authority. Sudan set a new temperature record of 49.7 °C (121.3 °F) on 22 June, in the town of Dongola.


2010 Sahel famine, Overview
Famine and food shortages were present in the following Sahelian countries during 2010 after heavy rains hit the region in late 2009, followed by a heat wave: Sudan, the Niger, northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mali, as well as in parts of the neighbouring Sénégal River Area.


2010 Sahel famine, Overview
In December 2009, both USAID and several NGOs predicted an increased food insecurity situation in more of the southern districts of Mali as compared to the same time the previous year.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Environmental problems
The Western donor nations once theorised that the drought in the Sahel primarily was caused by humans over-using natural resources in the region through overgrazing, deforestation and poor land management. In the late 1990s, climate model studies suggested that large-scale climate changes were also triggers for the drought.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Environmental problems
In the early 2000s, after the phenomenon of global dimming was discovered, some speculatively suggested, that the drought was likely caused by air pollution generated in Eurasia and North America. The pollution changed the properties of clouds over the Atlantic Ocean, disturbing the monsoons and shifting the tropical rains southwards. Global dimming, the blocking of sunlight by man-made particulates, has been identified as one culprit for a decades-long drought across sub-Saharan Africa.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Environmental problems
A 2006 study by NOAA scientists Rong Zhang and Thomas L. Delworth suggests that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation/(MAO) plays a leading role. An AMO warm phase strengthens the summer rainfall over Sahel, while a cold phase reduces it. The AMO entered a warm phase in 1995 and, by assuming the presence of a theoretical 70-year cycle (following peaks in ≈1880 and ≈1950), it would probably peak around about 2020.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Environmental problems
The Sahel's farmers have been largely cleared of blame for the 19th century's Sahel droughts. The Sahel region's rains in the 1930s and 1940s were caused by the recent warming of the Indian Ocean, rather than by over-farming causing environmental degradation as previously assumed, according to a new joint Scidev/UN study. With both a 3.5 C. rise in the Niger's temperature over the last decade and with irrigated land accounting for only 0.1% of the Niger's inhabitable land, regular famine crisis is inevitable in most years. Acute water shortages, which are common in the region's harsh weather, make irrigation systems all the more important for the local farmers.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad
The Lake Chad basin straddles the borders of both Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. The lake is situated 281 metres (922 ft) above sea level and is diminishing over time due to lack of rain water and major rivers running into it. According to the UN the marshy lake shrank as much as by 95% from about 1963 to 1998 yet they also state that "The 2007 (satellite) image shows significant improvement over previous years".


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad
Lake Chad is economically important, providing water to more than 20 million people living in the four countries that surround it (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria) on the edge of the Sahara Desert. The plant Typha Australis (or the big cattail) is cutting off water supplies in the Lake Chad Basin, and has slashed available water supplies in the Chad's region. The only protected area is Lake Chad Game Reserve, which covers half of the area next to the lake that belongs to Nigeria. The whole lake has been declared a Ramsar site of international importance.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad
Lake Chad's role in the Sahel famine has attracted attention partly due to the desertification that is increasingly claiming a huge swath not just of the Sahel region but also the entire African continent. According to a United Nations environment program, in 2002, this phenomenon, which is a process where the soil loses the capacity to retain necessary moisture, has covered nearly half of Africa. It was revealed that the Sahel region is one of the areas that are worst affected.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad
The problem is also highlighted by the discovery of fossil pollens indicating that, in ancient times, the shores of Lake Chad supported a well-watered savanna, which contributed to a lesser level of aridity in the Sahel area. It was found that around 3,000 B.C., the Sahel averaged 650 millimetres of rainfall a year compared to an average of 350 millimetres recorded today. Given the issue of desertification, even if Lake Chad was not directly a cause of the famine, its potential demise is expected to further aggravate the problem. There are studies that show that the incidence of famine is reportedly related to the delicate seasonal variations in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad
The shrinking of Lake Chad is blamed on the long droughts as well as the uptick in human activities such as the use of the lake's water for irrigation, the destruction of wooded areas for firewood, and the shift from the cultivation of corn and wheat to rice as the staple crop.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The Demise of Lake Chad, The Ubangi River diversion proposal
In the 1960s, a plan was proposed to divert the Ubangi River into Lake Chad. The copious amount of water from the Ubangi would revitalise the dying Lake Chad and provide livelihood in fishing and enhanced agriculture to tens of millions of central Africans and Sahelians. Inter-basin water transfer schemes were proposed in the 1980s and 1990s by Nigerian engineer J. Umolu (ZCN Scheme) and Italian firm Bonifica (Transaqua Scheme). In 1994, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) proposed a similar project and at a March 2008 Summit, the Heads of State of the LCBC member countries committed to the diversion project. In April 2008, the LCBC advertised a request for proposals for a World Bank-funded feasibility study.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The possible effects of cash crops
Cotton and groundnuts are two of Chad's four major cash crops. Mali's major cash crops are peanuts and cotton. Mali's cotton production has grown from 500,000 tonnes in 1997 to a record 635,000 tonnes in 2003, which has pleased the African Association of Cotton Producers, but has also led to a claim that cash crops are being put before food and fodder crops in Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad. Cassava production has fallen slightly in Burkina Faso since 2007, relative to cotton output. Their cash crops are cotton, groundnuts, shea nuts, and sesame.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, The possible effects of cash crops
The Sahel's farmers are largely cleared of blame for the 20th century's Sahel droughts and this is supported by the position that several of the cash crops in the Sahel region have desirable ecological effects such as the tree crops and the legumes, which help prevent the process of desertification. However, there is the enduring question of whether cash crops like cotton are more important than food plants like wheat and casava. This issue persists as studies cite that the famine is linked to the direct entitlement failure that affected people's access to food.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Over-population
Many of the world's countries, including many in Sub-saharan Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia, have seen a sharp rise in population since the end of the Cold War. The fear is that high population numbers are putting further strain on natural resources, food supplies, fuel supplies, employment, housing, etc. ; in some of the less fortunate countries. The population of Chad has, for example, ultimately grown from 6,279,921 in 1993 to 10,329,208 in 2009, further straining its resources. Nigeria is witnessing a similar growth in population, strained resources and a possible over-population problem in the near future.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Over-population
The situation was most acute in northern, western and central Africa. Refugees from places like the Sudan have helped further strain the resources of neighbouring states like the Chad and Egypt. The nation is also host to roughly 255,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur region, and about 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic, whilst approximately 188,000 Chadians have been displaced by their own civil war and famines, have either fled to either the Sudan, the Niger or, more recently, Libya.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Aid workers being driven off by kidnappers
On 25 August a French aid worker was kidnapped in Chad. The kidnapping of foreigners along the Chad/Darfur border became more frequent in 2009. A French NGO worker was taken and then murdered on 29 October 2009, and an unidentified Red Cross worker was captured on 10 November 2009. Many NGOs and charities have begun to restrict the areas covered by their aid work in Niger, Chad, and Sudan due to the ever-present risk of bandits and kidnappers. The organisations are thus pulling out in fear of their workers' lives.


2010 Sahel famine, Possible causes, Aid workers being driven off by kidnappers
Most international aid agencies have been withdrawing workers from some areas of the Sahel, due to the regional kidnapping crisis. Niger's government spokesman Mahamane Lawali Danda told the BBC that the pullout was a surprise to him since no one had told him or his government that Niger was on the list of dangerous 'kidnapper infested' pariah nations, along with Chad, Darfur and Sudan. Strangely, Mauritania and Mali were not on the list of dangerous nations, despite several al-Qaeda lead kidnappings in both during 2009.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, January
11 January saw an emerging famine situation in south eastern Sudan according to the UN, NGOs, the EU and various Charities.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, January
The government of Niger says 7,800,000 risk starvation in 2010 as heavy drought and high heat hit Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad and northern Nigeria on both 27 and 28 January and was estimated to need about $220,000,000 million this year in food and agricultural aid. The EU's ECHO aid department said of signs of food shortages were in Niger and spreading to neighbours such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad and northern Nigeria as 15,000,000 are estimated to face a chronic food shortage in Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, January
The EU and UN also put out a famine alert for Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad and northern Nigeria and began to appeal for aid on the 28th. The EU, China and Russia stopped giving Niger aid in 2009 after President Mamadou Tandja defied UN, EU and worldwide criticism over extending his term in office.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, February
The UN, NGOs and charities warned of heavy food insecurity in Southern Sudan throughout February due to an emerging famine and the ongoing conflict between Misseriya nomad in the Southern Kordofan department. The rainfall was reported at an all-time low in Mauritania and neighbouring parts of Senegal during most of February and early March.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, February
The EU warns of a pending Sahel famine centered upon Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad on 1 February.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
Human Rights Watch said that Al Qaeda should stop targeting African civilians and aid workers on 16 March.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
A drought was confirmed to have hit parts of Burkina Faso on 10 March, by USAID and the UN.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
On 13 March 2010 the UN, NGOs, the EU and various charities put out a famine alert for parts of southern Sudan.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
On 15 March 2010 Britain's Save The Children charity launched an appeal as 840,000 Nigerians are confirmed to be in imminent risk of a famine.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
On 17 March 2010, a famine was declared in Mao in Chad's sand-swept Kanem region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, March
On 23 March 2010, major sandstorms hit Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea and inland Sierra Leone. Another hit southern Algeria, inland Mauritania, Mali and northern Côte d'Ivoire at the same time.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, April
During April and June, Islamic Relief (IR) sent aid workers to the North Kordofan to help improve their 16-year-old Um Dam and North Kordofan Water Project (NKWP). The UN, NGOs, charities and the Sudanese government reported that food security was a major concern in South Sudan and would stay at risk until the rainy season in September.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, April
By 8 April 2010, starving children and elders filled the wards of a hospital in Akobo, Sudan. Several aid groups like Save the Children and Medair found out that 46% of children in the region were malnourished. The U.N. blamed two years of failed rainfall and the ongoing tribal clashes in the region for helping to create the humanitarian crisis in southern Sudan. The World Food Programme(WFP) was feeding 80,000 (up from 20,000 since April 2009) and the U.N. says 4,300,000 people in southern Sudan need food aid.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, April
On 23 April 2010, said Nigerien Culture Minister Aminata Takoubakoyea, there was a reported food supply deficit of 119,700 tonnes and a fodder supply deficit of 16,000,000 tonnes. Niger's leading musicians and singers held a charity concert in Niamey to assist.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
On 1 May 2010, the West African nation of Chad was on the verge of a nationwide famine as drought, armed conflict, and an influx of Darfur refugees all contributed to a chronic food shortage that now affects 2,000,000 people (20% of the country's total population). Various aid groups, NGOs and charities said a catastrophic famine could hit the country in the near future if food relief does not arrive soon. The UN warned that a famine had hit the town of Mao in Chad's Kanem region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
The city of Niamey, Niger took in refugees from Tillabéri department 12 days before, after they turned up hoping the city would help them. By 3 May 2010, the towns of Kongomé, Zinder, Tanout and Dalli were the worst hit by the drought.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
Morocco gives a short term cash loan to both the Niger and Mali.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
NGOs and Charities report famine conditions Kindal region on the 5th.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
On 12 and 26 May 2010, both Mauritania, the Sénégal River Area and neighbouring parts of both Senegal and Mali faced both drought and famine.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
On 14 May 2010, USAID issued a food shortage alert for the Kordofan states.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
Seven died of dehydration in Ghaidi Magha, Mauritania, near the Malian border on 18 May 2010.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
Afrol News reported on 25 May that about 2,000,000 Chadians were at risk of having a famine occur in their regions after the combined effects of 2 years of drought and pestilence had ruined their harvest yet again.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
On 27 and 28 May 2010, Mali and Niger faced a famine situation in their northern territories. The Kidal, Timboktu and Gao had their crops and livestock die off. Gao's historic nomad market had virtually no food stuffs or animal fodder in it.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, May
31 May saw Chad embroiled in a fiscal controversy. A 12-metre statue of a horseman, the Rond-point de la Grande Armée, in the capital N'djamena, cost over $3,000,000. Both local critics, NGOs and overseas donor nations all wondered where the money had come from and thought it would have been better spent on buying food and irrigation equipment.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
NGOs, various charities and the UN warned of heavy food shortages and food insecurity in Sudan's Blue Nile, Kassala, Janub Darfur, South Kordofan and North Kordofan departments.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
Dehydration was reported to have killed one person in Niger, while others in the region were at risk of water shortages on 1 June.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
Severe drought caused to 10,000,000 to go seriously short on as the Eastern Sahel crisis increases and local food prices surge on 3 June. Niger has 7,100,00 victims, Chad has 2,000,000 victims and other country have 900,000 victims in total. Niger, Chad, the eastern parts of Mali and northern Cameroon have also been badly affected by the failed rains and scorching heat, according to the UN World Food Programme. The WFP, which plans to assist 3,600,000 people in the coming months and said the crisis is expected to last at least until the next harvest in September 2010.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
The British charity Save the Children, launched an emergency appeal for Niger. Starving families were reported as either have travelled more than 600 miles to reach the capital Niamey to find work and/or beg for food, while others have crossed the border in Nigeria. A Similar situation is occurring in Chad as, desperate Chadians fled into southern Libya. Sudan and Burkina Faso were in a server food insecure situation too.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 6 June 2010, growing famine in the Niger drove thousand of refugees into the Nigerian provinces of Kano and Katsina states. About 7,000,000 were facing a food shortage crisis in Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 7 June the Malian Government's Early Warning System released an estimate that 258,000 people were suffering from malnutrition in the towns of Gao and Kidal in April. Low and erratic rainfall in 2009 had occurred in Timbuktu, Kidal, and Gao, leading to a heavy regional drought. Hundreds of refugees moved to Gao from Burkina Faso and Niger, but were now too weak with starvation to leave Mali. The UN and Mali's government asked the developed nations for food aid and financial help in the face of the growing humanitarian crisis. The amount taken in Nigeria's harvest was down by 65,000 tonnes, whilst Niger had virtually nothing to take from their harvest.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 8 June 2010, France food aid to and the European Union pledged an additional $28,000,000 million to help the millions of victims in the Niger, the Chad, Burkina Faso, and northern Nigeria. The charity Save the Children sent a team to Aguie in Niger, 850 km north east from the capitol Niamey, to set up an aid centre on the 8th and reported back on the 9th than 350,000 children faced severe malnutrition.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 9 June, various groups of hydrologists, geologists and scientists in the Sahara desert used magnetic imaging technology when looking for aquifer sites for drilling water wells in Eastern Chad. Both northern Mali, southern Libya, southern Algeria, eastern Chad were being examined in part of an ongoing project to find viable drilling as the region's nations try to find new water sources to keep up with their growing demand. In recent years, roughly 300,000 refugees have arrived from both the war-torn Sudan and ailing Central African Republic, thus straining the already limited water supplies. Both Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger have shown a major interest in the further development of this resource lead local industry.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 11 June 2010, the UN's World Food Organisation, Oxfam and MSF all warned of an impending famine in Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and northern Nigeria. Niger's Diffa Region was of the most concern to the experts at hand.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
By 13 June 2010, roughly 30% of crops failed in some of Niger's provinces.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
A new heat wave hit Niger on 21 June, causing an increased area of drought in that country as well. Niger's crops failed and famine occurred. About 350,000 faced starvation and 1,200,000 were at risk of famine according to the Niger's government, while the UN said roughly 2,000,000 Chadians, 7,000,0000 Nigerians and 1,000,000 other people of the Sahel region faced starvation and 200,000 Nigerian children were malnourished.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
In over-heated Chad, the temperature reached 47.6 °C (117.7 °F) on 22 June in Faya-Largeau, breaking a record set in 1961 at the same location. Niger tied its highest temperature record set in 1998, on also 22 June, at 47.1 °C in Bilma. That record was broken the next day, on 23 June when Bilma hit 48.2 °C (118.8 °F). The hottest temperature recorded in Sudan was reached on 22 June, at 49.7 °C (121.3 °F) in Dongola, breaking a record set in 1987. Sudan's record temperature was matched on the 23rd too.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 23 June the UN, WFP and various humanitarian agencies requested $190,700,000 million to enable them respond to the unfolding famine in Niger. The UN estimates that just under 50% of country's 7,100,000 people risked starving to death.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
On 24 June the government of Niger admitted that it was suffering from a major famine and said aid workers and NGOs were now welcome. The government of the Ivory Coast had reported to various NGOs that it was struggling to control desertification and imminent drought conditions in parts of its northern savanna lands. Oxfam launch a £7,000,000 emergency appeal to try to help more than 800,000 of the most vulnerable people in Chad, Niger and Mali.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, June
26 June saw 1,600,000 Chadians facing food insecurity in the Bahr el Gazel Region, Batha Region, Guera Region, Hadjer-Lamis Region, Lac Region and the Kanem Region. About 604,000 people were benefiting from its assistance as a total 60% of families became victims of the famine in varying degrees according to the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). Chad appealed to donors for increased contribution to the international famine relief operation in Chad that received US$42,100,000 of a pledged total of US$65,000,000, to enable it continue all its relief work and charitable activities until the end of the year 2010. Cameroon also suffered from heavy desertification in the savanna regions of South Region, Centre Region, West Region, Northwest Region and Far North Region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
July saw sporadic and small-scale food riots in Sudan's Blue Nile, Janub Darfur, South Kordofan and North Kordofan departments. The Muslim Hands charity set up an appeal and sent aid to Niger and Mali in July. It was the worst Niger famine since 1984, with 3,500,000 people starving.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 6 July, the Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF) aid experts said that more than 1,500,000 Nigerians were at risk of famine due to a month-long heat wave that was hovering over Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Morocco. A fund of about £20,000 was distributed to the crisis-hit countries of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
The heat wave that left Morocco for the Iberian Peninsula on 11 July was attributed to the regional hot air currents that depart from the Sahara desert in Northern Africa at about 1,000 meters in altitude. This facilitated a movement in the hot air towards the Balkans and the Ukraine via the Straits of Gibraltar, Spain and Italy. Unusually hot weather was also reported in parts of Algeria on 11 July.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 12 July 2010, a local goat farmer was killed and his small flock stolen by Chadian refugees in the South Darfur region of the Sudan. The UN's WFP body estimated that 2,500,000 were at risk of a famine breaking out in their part of Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 13 July, the USAID funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), and the UN warned of a food supply shortage in northern Sudan, with increasing food insecurity focused on the war torn Darfur region and other neighbouring areas. The deteriorating security situation in the conflict zone was predicted to reduce both productivity and peoples' access to local agricultural well, as well as disrupting the seasonal livestock migration. USAID/OFDA provided $133,200,000 to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to help remedy the crisis in the three Darfur states. Concerns were also raised about the situation in Chad,


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
Three years of famine and then the recent sandstorms devastated Niger on 14 July. Diarrhoea, starvation, gastroenteritis, malnutrition and respiratory diseases kill and sicken many children. The new military junta appealed for international food aid and has taken serious steps to call overseas help since coming to office in February 2010. Sudan witnessed minor food rioting in Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Abyei as profiteering locals and merchants and Ugandan exporters took advantage of the shortages in order to heavily mark up their selling prices.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
15 July saw more border conflicts between the Nuer and the Dinka, further hindering aid workers in Southern Sudan.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 17 July, Mohamed Béavogui, the Director of Western and Central Africa Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), called for more international help for the people of the Sahel, who had a 410,000 tons of cereals and 20,000 tons of fodder deficit. He also condemned the world for not doing enough to help the Sahel, but stopped short of Cheminade's idea of pumping water from the Zaire River into Lake Chad to reinvigorate its water supply and stop any further shrinkage.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 24 July, the British Red Cross flew its logistics teams Bristol Airport to Niger to help the army and local officials with transportation. The relief effort has already been made possible by the response to the Red Cross's West Africa Crisis Appeal, which aims to raise £500,000. According to UN agencies, 200,000 children need treatment for malnutrition in Niger alone, as Oxfam put out an £7,000,000 appeal to cover both Chad and Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
France sent unspecified food and cash aid to Mali on 25 July.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 26 July the heat reached near-record levels over Chad and Niger, and about 20 had reportedly died in northern Niger of dehydration on 27 July.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
27 July also saw a critical situation occurring in northern Mali and Chad. About 8,000,0000 Nigerians, 1,600,000 Chadians and 500,000 Malians were on the verge of a major food shortage as the Nigerian journalist Tidiane Kassé said that by tackling the consequences rather than the causes would be a better form of long-term help for the region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, July
On 31 July, leading economists predicted that food prices, especially wheat, would rise in Chad as Russia ends exports due to a domestic drought destroying their wheat and barley harvests.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 1 August, Gadabeji, Niger suffered 35 °C heat and drought. On 1 August, just under 12,000,000 people in Niger (approximately 80% of the nation's entire population) faced a food supply crisis and possibly even famine conditions. The Tillabéri region is 30 km from the capital, Niamey, on the road to the Saharan town of Timbuktu. Unusually severe rainfall destroyed and then rotted the farmers' crops. Basic food stuffs like maize, millet and sorghum were running out in West Africa's Sahel. Both Chad and northern Nigeria have a similar, but less severe problem.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 3 August, Burkina Faso was hit by a drought, as 4,500,000 Burkinans and 6,700,000 Nigerians faced starvation. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Sudanese Nuer–Dinka war was hampering relief efforts and damaging agricultural output in parts of South Sudan.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
10 August saw an Al Jazeera reporter say that 7,500,000 Nigerians were at risk of famine and 15,000,000 could face a famine across the Sahel.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
An estimated 8,000,000 people faced famine conditions in Niger on 11 August. Senegal and Gambia sent food aid to the Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 12 August, Gianluca Ferrera, deputy director for the UN's World Food Programme in the Niger, said malnutrition and crop failures were at a record levels in 2010. Food shortages are affecting 12,000,000 people and 400,000 children face starvation. Food prices rose by about 300% since the crisis began and thus hardly any one can afford to buy the remaining food.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
14 August saw protests across Sénégal over concerns relating to the ruling party's poor governance in the face of recent floods, storms and power cuts across the country, along with the current heavy drought in Senegal's Sahel region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
15 August had aid workers and their organisations warn of an imminent nationwide famine in Niger.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 20 August, floods which were the worst for 80 years hit the Shale region. The U.N. warned that Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and northern Nigeria are also in the grip of the worst regional food crisis since 2006. In the savannah Kano, Nigeria, over 2,000 families were displaced by floods and in the nearby Jigawa region, an entire village was evacuated due to heavy flooding. In Mauritania, a flood damaged bridges and many homes in the mountain town of Aioun. Heavy flooding was occurring around parts of lake Chad.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
Most international aid agencies withdraw workers due to the regional kidnapping crisis. Niger's government spokesman Mahamane Lawali Danda told the BBC that the pullout came as a surprise since no one had told his government Niger was on the list of dangerous 'kidnapper infested' pariah states, along with Chad, Darfur and Sudan. Mauritania and Mali were not on the list of dangerous nations, despite several al-Qaeda lead kidnappings during 2009.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
The U.N. warned of mass starvation in Niger and Chad and Oxfam said people in the region were surviving on leaves and berries picked in the wild. 8,000,000 were said to be near starvation by both organisation. The UN estimated that up to 7,800,000 Nigeriens were affected by heavy food shortages. Cafod set up a £100,000 aid programme on 21 August.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
25 August had a French aid worker kidnapped in Chad. The kidnapping of foreigners along the Chad–Darfur border became more frequent in 2009. A French NGO worker was taken and then murdered on 29 October 2009, and an unidentified Red Cross worker was captured on 10 November 2009. Many NGOs and charities had started to restrict the areas covered by their aid work in Niger, Chad and Sudan, due to the ever-present risk of bandits and kidnapers.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 28 August, charities and NGOs put out food shortage alerts for Niger. Heavy rain falls on the border of the CAR and the Chad.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
31 August saw 7,900,000 of Niger's 15,300,000 people in immediate risk of starvation and Gordon Brown MP making plans for a $100,000 charity speech on the development of irrigation and water schemes to increase cultivable land the Niger and the Chad. He was quoted to have said in the interview that:


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
But, today, where there is suffering without hope, we can prevent children dying painful, avoidable deaths


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
On 31 August Sudan's army reported that 3 Russian helicopter crew members had been abducted by gunmen in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, just hours after Samaritan's Purse aid worker Flavia Wagner who had been kidnapped 18 May was set free. She was taken from the South Darfurian village of Abu Ajura, along with two Sudanese colleagues who were also freed after a week.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, August
The governor of South Darfur, Abdel Hamid Kasha, Sudan foreign ministry spokesman Moawiya Osman and Samaritan's Purse's leader Franklin Graham, and the Russian ambassador to Chad welcomed Flavia's release, but condemned the kidnap of the three Russians and that of two Jordanian UNAMID police advisers in Darfur, on the 14th. Another Russian helicopter pilot was taken prisoner for four days after landing in South Darfur to take rebels' spokesmen to Chad for alleged peace talks.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
On 1 September, aid agencies and NGOs called for aid to be given to Niger as 7,000,000 faced starvation.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
4 September had Cholera outbreaks kill 41 in Chad and one in Nigeria.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
8 September saw a Chinese CGC Overseas Construction Co. Ltd. oil worker kidnapped in Bahaï, Chad and took him to Sharq al-Teyna, in Sudan's Darfur region.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
On 13 September the Prem Rawat Foundation gave $30,000 loan to pay for Niger to buy food aid for children of its nomadic tribal groups.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
On 14 September heavy rainfall in central and southern Chad raised hopes that the major drought in Africa's Sahel region would be over by early 2011. 10,000,000 were near to starvation in the Sahel. The UN's WFP had estimated that Chad needs about 100,000 metric tonnes of food aid, but had only received 70,000 metric tonnes so far. Most of the Chadian need to sell more cereal crops to make enough money to repay their huge debts. farmers According to Jean François Caremel of the Action Against Hunger charity branch in Chad. As both Chad and Niger faced an improving situation due to heavy rain fall over these countries, but a major famine was still unfolding in other countries of West Africa's dry Sahelian region


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
15 September had Sudanese and Chadian forces jointly searching for both the Chinese oil industry engineer taken on the 8th and a Chinese aid worker who was kidnapped from the same town on the morning of the 15th. Both the Chinese ambassador to Chad, the Chadian government and the Solidarity Action for Peace and Development NGO condemned the kidnappings. The Chinese hostage was released in the Dafur on the 17th.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, September
18 and 19 September In Hadejia, Nigeria, The flood victims sleep wherever they can, the men search for dry spots on the roads while women and children keep piling into their houses still standing as huge number of displaced people have returned to flood-hit villages in Northern Nigeria. Over two million people were affected by the flood waters and more than 50,000 families are still wandering homeless. Residential areas of the Kararar Rima village was also destroyed in the flood. Most of the houses were made of clay, so they easy dissolved in the flood water. As the rains fell the end of the pending famine looked close.


2010 Sahel famine, List of events, October
The famine was finally relieved, as floods hit Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Benin in October 2010. Cotonou's residents in Benin had to board canoes, on the 9th due to severe flooding. According to the UN, 680,000 people were homeless while more than 300,000 acres of crops had been destroyed and 81,000 livestock killed. Flooding began in mid-September when heavy rains caused the Niger River in Benin's north to overflow and break its banks. Rainfall continued across the country. Heavy rains caused the collapse of an already damaged dam in Ghana and displaced more than 700,000 people.


2010 Sahel famine, Long term food security plans, Food security schemes
Against a backdrop of conventional interventions through the state or markets, alternative initiatives have been pioneered to address the problem of food security. An example is the "Community Area-Based Development Approach" to agricultural development ("CABDA"), an NGO programme with the objective of providing an alternative approach to increasing food security in Africa. CABDA proceeds through specific areas of intervention such as the introduction of drought-resistant crops and new methods of food production such as agro-forestry. In an analysis of the programme by the Overseas Development Institute, CABDA's focus on individual and community capacity-building is highlighted. This enables farmers to influence and drive their own development through community-run institutions, bringing food security to their household and region.


2010 Sahel famine, Long term food security plans, Aquifer usage
Mali and Libya were also tapping into the ancient Sub-Saharan aquifer and Bas Saharan Basin as a source of drinking water, as of 2009 and 2008 respectively.


2010 Sahel famine, Long term food security plans, Aquifer usage
On 9 June 2010 various groups of hydrologists, geologists and scientists in the Sahara desert used magnetic imaging techniques when looking for sites in aquifers for drilling water wells in Eastern Chad. Northern Mali, southern Libya, southern Algeria, eastern Chad were being examined in part of an ongoing project to find viable drilling as the region's nations try to find new water sources to keep up with their growing demand. Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger have shown a major interest in the further development of this resource lead local industry, which could prove a valuable asset for nomads, local farmers and townsfolk alike in the years to come.


2010 Sahel famine, Long term food security plans, The 'Food Crises Prevention and Management Charter'
The Food Crises Prevention and Management Charter was validated on 11 August 2010, in the drought that hit Gambia. The signatory countries were from the Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel (CILLS) and West Africa Club (SWAC), and the Gambia, which was also hosting the event. Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia chose to express specific opinions on how to stop any further droughts in the region. The goal of the treaty is to help avert and mitigate the effects of future droughts, famines and food shortages in the member states. The CILSS was created in 1973 during the first of the 'great droughts' of the late 20th century.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team
The 2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team represented the University of Saint Francis, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the 2010 NAIA football season. They were led by head coach Kevin Donley, who served his 13th year as the first and only head coach in the history of Saint Francis football. The Cougars played their home games at Bishop John D'Arcy Stadium and were members of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) Mideast League (MEL). The Cougars finished in 2nd place in the MSFA MEL division, but they received an at-large bid to participate in the postseason NAIA playoffs.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
The 2010 season began explosively as the 17th-ranked Cougars won impressively on the road, 70-7. 9/18/2010 - Week #2 saw the Cougars elevated to 11th in the national rankings. The opponent for the home-opener was another ranked team, 17th-ranked St. Ambrose. Trailing 17-0 at the half, the Cougars showed some maturity by rebounding in the second half for a 31-20 win. For their victory, the Cougars were rewarded with a rise in the rankings to the 9th best team in the country.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
9/25/2010 - Leading 28-3 at the half, USF held on for a hard-fought road victory against a highly regarded Marian. The road win was the first game for Marian in their new St. Vincent Health Field.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
10/9/2010 - The win over Walsh was an upset in the national rankings that listed Walsh as #8 and USF as the #9 team in the nation.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
10/23/2010 - With a 41-14 home win over Missouri U S&T, the 7th-ranked Cougars remained undefeated and avenged a 2-point loss on the road against last year's Miners.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
10/30/2010 - With their 63-0 win over Olivet Nazarene, USF record moved to 8-0 for the season. Next week's game at #3 St. Xavier will match two undefeated, NAIA top-10 Cougar teams to decide the conference and division championships.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
11/6/2010 - St. Xavier dominated this game in a 30-6 victory for the home team. The six point offensive output was the lowest points scored by a USF team in a regular season game since the 11th game of their program, the opening game of the 1999 season. For the second time in two years, this victory gave the MSFA conference and league title to St. Xavier.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
11/13/2010 - With their 33-21 win over Taylor University, USF avenged the season-ending loss from a year ago. The win guarantees the 10th-ranked USF an appearance next week in the opening round of the 16-team NAIA Championship tournament.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
11/20/2010 - Ranked #10 in the final NAIA regular-season poll, USF drew a road trip to Lindenwood for the first round of the playoffs. The 5th-ranked Lions, 9-1 on the regular season, entered the game with the nation's highest scoring offense. The Cougars pulled off the upset win, 44-38, with an offense that efficiently controlled the football for over 40 minutes of the 60-minute game. For the win, the Cougars earned a rematch in the second round against MSFA foe St. Xavier.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
11/27/2010 - The Cougars return visit to St. Xavier ended with the same results as the first meeting of the year, a 40-21 loss. Thus, the USF season ended with a 10-2 record, with both losses coming on the St. Xavier home field.


2010 Saint Francis Cougars football team, Game summaries
1/10/2011 - The Cougars were recognized for their successful season by voters in the postseason NAIA football polls. The Cougars improved 5 spots in the polls, behind only the four semifinalists in the national tournament. The 5th-place ranking gave the Cougars their best poll position of the season.


2010 Saint Francis Red Flash football team
The 2010 Saint Francis Red Flash football team represented Saint Francis University as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC) during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Red Flash were led by Chris Villarrial in his first year as the program’s 27th head coach and played their home games at DeGol Field. They finished the season 1–10 overall and 1–7 in NEC play to place last.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election
General elections were held in Saint Kitts and Nevis on 25 January 2010 for eleven of the fourteen or fifteen seats in the National Assembly. The other three or four members of the National Assembly will be appointed by the Governor-General after the elections.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election
The ruling Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), led by Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, won a fourth term in office. It was opposed in the campaign by the opposition People's Action Movement (PAM), led by Lindsay Grant. Both parties received much of their support from the island of Saint Kitts, which chooses eight of the eleven elected members of the National Assembly.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election
On the neighboring island of Nevis, local parties, including the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) and the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM), vied for three seats in the National Assembly. Support from Nevisian political parties could decide control of the national government in a tight election.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election
The continuing economic crisis was a major issue in the campaign. The national debt of Saint Kitts and Nevis had risen to US$2 billion under the SKNLP government, roughly $50,000 per citizen. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas shrugged off accusations that he had let the debt spiral upward during his fifteen years in office:


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, Background
Before the 2010 election, the Labour Party controlled seven of the eight seats allocated to the island of Saint Kitts in the Assembly. The opposition People's Action Movement (PAM) controlled the other Saint Kitts seat. From nearby Nevis, the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) controlled two of Nevis' three seats in the Assembly, while the opposition Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) controlled the other seat.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, Background
Prime Minister Douglas, speaking to a crowd of approximately 15,000 in Basseterre on 9 January 2010, announced the dates for the upcoming election. He set Nomination Day for 15 January 2010, with the general election to be held on 25 January.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, Conduct
Armed police had to respond to protests alleging voting irregularities in the constituency where the PAM leader Lindsay Grant was up against Glen "Ghost" Phillips of the SKNLP. PAM supporters contended that "outsiders" were being brought into the Half Way Tree Community Centre, seven miles (11 km) from the capital Basseterre, to vote. Elsewhere in the country, voting was reported to be calm "amidst overcast skies following some intermittent morning showers."


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, Results
On Saint Kitts, the SKNLP won six out of the eight seats. The PAM gained a new National Assembly member, Eugene Hamilton, while PAM deputy leader Shawn Richards retained his seat. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas retained his seat for Constituency Six by a margin of 1905 votes to 179.


2010 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election, Results
On Nevis, the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) won two seats, with the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) taking the third.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season
The 2010 Saint Louis Athletica season is the second season for the team, after a strong showing in their inaugural year (second place in the regular season and third in the playoffs).


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Offseason
In the first WPS expansion draft, Athletica lost two players to the Atlanta Beat. Atlanta used their second pick (fourth overall) on Athletica forward Amanda Cinalli, and their fifth pick (tenth overall) on defender Sara Larsson, who was the only international player to be taken by either team in the draft.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Offseason
On September 30, when the WPS free agency period began, all teams announced which players they waived or let become free agents, with Athletica waiving/freeing ten players, while resigning or extending contracts for five other players, after exercising options for another four players two days earlier. Athletica release Niki Cross was picked up by FC Gold Pride at the end of October, as were Christie Welsh and Sarah Walsh by the Washington Freedom and Boston Breakers, respectively, in mid-February.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Offseason
On November 23, Athletica put on their website that they had successfully signed Swedish forward Madelaine Edlund and Brazilian midfielder Elaine, both from Umea IK, two bring Athletica's confirmed international count for 2010 up to three. They also later re-signed Daniela, for a total of four internationals.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Offseason
The morning day of the 2010 WPS Draft, Athletica traded young goalkeeper Jillian Loyden to the Chicago Red Stars in exchange for Lindsay Tarpley. Later that day, they drafted UCLA Bruin Kristina Larsen, (second round, 17th overall,) UNC and Pali Blue goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris, (second round, 19th overall,) Santa Clara midfielder Amanda Poach, (third round, 28th overall,) and four other players.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Offseason
In preparation for the dispersal of the Los Angeles Sol players, Athletica traded Angie Woznuk, Kia McNeill, and rights to Amanda Poach to the Atlanta Beat. In the dispersal draft, Athletica acquired Shannon Boxx, Aya Miyama, Christina DiMartino, and rights to Cathrine Paaske-Sørensen.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Personnel, Players
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Preseason
Athletica played four games in the 2010 preseason, double that from 2009. Wins against the University of Illinois (4-0) and University of Missouri (3-0) were followed by a 2-1 loss against WPS expansion side Atlanta Beat. Former Athletica player Kia McNeill opened the scoring for the Beat, with Ramona Bachmann (Atlanta) and Shannon Boxx (St. Louis) each adding one later. Athletica finished the preseason with a 3-0 win against a local boys' academy team.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Trade: May 5 w/ New Jersey
After a sounding loss to the Washington Freedom, Athletica made a defensive-minded trade with Sky Blue FC, sending India Trotter and their first round draft pick for the 2011 WPS Draft to the New Jersey team, getting in return English international Anita Asante, rights to former Los Angeles Sol player Nikki Washington, and a second round 2011 draft pick.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Trade: May 5 w/ New Jersey
The trade was actually announced on May 4, but controversy and a league review followed because, last season, Athletica had traded away their 2011 first round draft pick to the Sol. Unlike the players, the Sol's draft picks had not been dispersed to the other teams, so whether or not that draft pick reverted to Athletica was unknown. The league approved the trade the following day, though.


2010 Saint Louis Athletica season, Regular season, Trade: May 5 w/ New Jersey
Trotter made an appearance for Sky Blue that weekend, though Asante and Washington were not ready to play for Athletica. Also, to make room for the English international, Athletica waived Brazilian Daniela.


2010 Salang avalanches
The 2010 Salang avalanches (Dari: برف‌کوچ‌های سالنگ, Pashto: سالنګ کې د واورې ښوئېدنې) consisted of a series of at least 36 avalanches that struck the southern approach to the Salang Tunnel, north of Kabul. They were caused by a freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains.


2010 Salang avalanches, Leading up to the disaster
About 250 avalanches annually strike the road. During the 2008/9 season, the total loss of life in Afghanistan due to avalanche was about 40 people.


2010 Salang avalanches, Leading up to the disaster
On 7 February 2010, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) reported that 10 people were killed in Kandahar Province. Najibullah Barith, ARCS's director in Kandahar complained about the lack of local and national resources.


2010 Salang avalanches, Leading up to the disaster
A spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disasters Management Authority said that 11 people were killed by avalanches in Farah, Bamyan, Ghor and Daykundi provinces between 4 and 8 February. The Afghan flash floods and avalanches left 20 others dead in the rest of the country on 8 February. The provincial authorities had summoned an emergency meeting and Loya Jurga to discuss responses on 8 February. Shah Wali Kot and Shorandam districts were the worst affected.


2010 Salang avalanches, Avalanches
A sudden blizzard struck the area shortly before the disaster, closing the tunnel and the roads around it on both sides of the tunnel. Heavy wind and rain in the area just before the incident caused up to 17 avalanches that buried at least 3.5 km (2.2 mi) of roadway in the Salang Tunnel, trapping thousands of people in their vehicles who were travelling in the tunnel. This also cut off one of the major travel links to Northern Afghanistan.


2010 Salang avalanches, Avalanches
Official reports soon after the avalanche report up to 64 people were feared dead and that more could die. Afghanistan's interior minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar believed that there could be at least 2,500 people trapped in their vehicles. Many vehicles were pushed down the mountains, and hundreds of cars were buried in snow. Among the survivors many injuries were reported.


2010 Salang avalanches, Rescue
The Afghan National Army formed the main backbone of the recovery effort with at least 500 troops sent to the area as well as two helicopters and several bulldozers. NATO International Security Assistance Force forces also gave their support providing four Chinook helicopters, as well as using helicopters to drop food and medical supplies to those trapped in their vehicles. The injured had been taken to Charikar Hospital in Parwan Province, and the more seriously injured had been taken to Bagram Airfield where they received more advanced medical treatment from coalition doctors.


2010 Salang avalanches, Rescue
Beside the direct injuries from the avalanche, there was also the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning inside the poorly-ventilated tunnel, while the traffic was stalled for a long time. By 10 February, about 2,500 people had been rescued, but it was feared that more people were still buried in their snow-trapped vehicles.


2010 Salang avalanches, Criticism
Institutional authorities including the National Meteorology Authority (NMA) were criticised for allowing the disaster to unfold. Although heavy snowfall had been forecast in the Salang area and structural walls had been weakened in previous avalanches, the pass was not closed and no preparations had been put in place. Officials point out that Afghanistan lacks the resources and infrastructure for the prevention and management of natural disasters and relies to some degree upon help by the United Nations and international forces.


2010 Salford City Council election
The 2010 Salford City Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Salford City Council in England. One third of the council was up for election. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party gained three seats and stayed in overall control of the council.


2010 Salta earthquake
The 2010 Salta earthquake occurred on February 27 at 12:45:36 local time in Salta Province, Argentina and had a magnitude of 6.3. It occurred less than 12 hours after the far larger magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake, which killed 525 people. It was initially thought to be an aftershock of the Chile earthquake, but scientists later established that the earthquakes were unrelated. The epicenter was about 15 miles north of the city of Salta. The quake killed two people, and injured dozens (possibly up to 100 people).


2010 Salta earthquake, Damage and casualties
The damage was not great, but small buildings and slums were easily destroyed. The earthquake received little regional coverage, largely because the catastrophe in Chile, occurring a few hours earlier, garnered the most attention. Much of the destruction happened in the towns of Campo Quijano and La Merced, where several adobe houses collapsed and numerous others were left uninhabitable.


2010 Samarkand Challenger
The 2010 Samarkand Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the fourteenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Samarkand, Uzbekistan between 9 and 14 August 2010.


2010 Samarkand Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Samarkand Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a Special Exempt into the main draw:


2010 Samarkand Challenger, Champions, Doubles
Andis Juška /  Deniss Pavlovs def. Lee Hsin-han /  Yang Tsung-hua, 7–5, 6–3


2010 Samarkand Challenger – Doubles
Kaden Hensel and Adam Hubble were the defending champions, but they decided to not participate this year. Andis Juška and Deniss Pavlovs won the final against Lee Hsin-han and Yang Tsung-hua 7–5, 6–3.


2010 Samarkand Challenger – Singles
Dustin Brown was the defending champion, but he chose to compete in Istanbul challenger instead. Andrej Martin won the title, after won 6–4, 7–5 against his compatriot Marek Semjan in the final.


2010 Samoa Cup
The 2010 Samoa Cup was the first edition of the Samoa Cup, a domestic cup played by the teams of the year's Samoa National League participants. This cup was won by  Kiwi FC for the first time, winning over runners-up Moaula FC 3–1 in the overall final.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500
The 2010 Samsung Mobile 500 was the eighth race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. It was scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. EST on April 18, 2010, but because of poor weather conditions it was delayed until noon EDT on April 19 on Fox, and was broadcast on PRN radio at 2:00 pm EDT. This  was the first race on a mile and a half track that cars had  the new rear spoilers installed, which altered their aerodynamic features. The race had 12 different leaders, 31 lead changes, seven caution flags and one red flag. Denny Hamlin won the race, and would go on to also win the fall race.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Practices and qualifying
During the first practice on April 16 the fastest drivers were Greg Biffle, Juan Pablo Montoya, David Reutimann, David Gilliland, and Bobby Labonte. In qualifying, the top-five fastest were Tony Stewart, Sam Hornish, Jr., Greg Biffle, Jimmie Johnson, and Kasey Kahne, while David Stremme, Terry Cook, and Johnny Sauter did not qualify. On April 17, both scheduled practices were canceled because of rain showers in the area.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
The race was scheduled to start on Sunday, April 18, 2010, but rain delayed the event until noon EDT on Monday, April 19. At 12:01 EDT, pre race events began  with Dr. Roger Marsh from TXARM-Texas Alliance Raceway Ministries giving the invocation; then Country legend Charley Pride performed the national anthem. Tammy King, who was a contest winner, gave the command: "Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!" Also, because of the rain delay, NASCAR decided to schedule a competition caution on lap 25.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
The race began at 12:19 p.m. EDT with Tony Stewart the leader in pole position. Stewart led until lap 16 when he was passed by Greg Biffle. By lap 20 Stewart had fallen to third. Five laps later, the competition caution came out. Tony Stewart was first off  pit road and had the lead. The green flag waved on lap 32 while Stewart was still the leader. Stewart led until lap 48 when Jimmie Johnson passed him. Johnson led the race until lap 76 at which point Dale Earnhardt, Jr. passed him.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
One lap later, the second caution, caused by Brian Vickers colliding with the wall, came out. On the restart, Stewart led them to the green flag start on lap 83. The race stayed green until the third caution came out on lap 100. The caution was caused by the spin of Brian Vickers' car in turn three. After all cars had pitted, Earnhardt, Jr. became the leader on the lap 104 restart. Shortly after the restart, on lap 111, the fourth caution waved because Sam Hornish, Jr. spun in turn four. The restart was on lap 116 with Earnhardt, Jr. the leader, but a lap later, on lap 117, Jamie McMurray passed him for the lead.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
Subsequently,  McMurray was in front until lap 127 when Earnhardt, Jr. passed him. Earnhardt, Jr. led until lap 137 at which point Jeff Gordon passed him. The race experienced a long run from lap 116 to lap 235. Gordon led until lap 166 when he came to pit road for a green flag pit stop; Juan Pablo Montoya passed him. Montoya then pitted leaving the lead for Earnhardt, Jr. Gordon  passed Earnhardt, Jr. on lap 182 for the lead in turn two.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
Jeff Gordon, around lap 205, entered heavy traffic that slowed him down and caused him to be passed by Jimmie Johnson. Once out of the heavy traffic Gordon took away the lead from Johnson. For the next ten laps green flag pit stops occurred. The top-five after the pit stops was Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Denny Hamlin, and David Reutimann. Then, on lap 227, Gordon passed Johnson for the lead. The fifth caution came out on lap 232 because Montoya collided with the wall. All lead lap cars pitted; the leader on the lap 236 restart was Tony Stewart.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
Stewart led until lap 253 because Jeff Gordon passed him. From lap 271 to 291 the race had green flag pit stops; after they were finished Gordon was the leader. Seventeen laps later, on lap 310 the sixth caution came out because of engine problems with David Reutimann's car. On restart, on lap 316, Jeff Burton led them to the green flag. A lap afterwards, the race was red flagged for a large crash exiting the quad-oval. The accident was caused by Tony Stewart getting clipped by Carl Edwards as a group of cars tried to go four-wide.


2010 Samsung Mobile 500, Race report, Race summary
The cars involved were Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, A. J. Allmendinger, Jamie McMurray, Joey Logano, Juan Pablo Montoya, Paul Menard, and Clint Bowyer. The race was red-flagged for 19 minutes to allow for cleanup to proceed. The restart with Jeff Burton the leader happened on lap 322. On lap 323, Denny Hamlin passed Burton for the lead. On lap 333, the white flag was waved for Hamlin. Jimmie Johnson, who started sixth on the last restart, was catching Hamlin, but Johnson did not have enough time. The race was Hamlin's second win of the season, and his tenth of his career.


2010 Samsung Securities Cup
The 2010 Samsung Securities Cup was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eleventh edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 18 and 24 October 2010.


2010 Samsung Securities Cup, ATP entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Samsung Securities Cup, Champions, Doubles
Rameez Junaid /  Frank Moser def. Vasek Pospisil /  Adil Shamasdin, 6–3, 6–4


2010 Samsung Securities Cup – Doubles
Rik de Voest and Lu Yen-hsun were the defending champions, but they did not compete in 2010 (Lu chose to play only in singles tennis).Rameez Junaid and Frank Moser won the final against Vasek Pospisil and Adil Shamasdin 6–3, 6–4.


2010 Samsung Securities Cup – Singles
Lukáš Lacko was the defending champion but decided not to participate.Lu Yen-hsun won the tournament after defeating Kevin Anderson 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2010 Samut Songkhram F.C. season
The 2010 season was Samut Songkhram's 3rd season in the top division of Thai football. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club played in the season.


2010 Samut Songkhram F.C. season, Players, Current squad
As of January 18, 2010Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Samut Songkhram F.C. season, Players, 2010 Season transfers
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 San Angelo Stampede Express season
The 2010 San Angelo Stampede Express season was the team's seventh season as a professional indoor football franchise and second in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of twenty-five teams that competed in the IFL for the 2010 season, the San Angelo, Texas-based San Angelo Stampede Express were members of the Lonestar East Division of the Intense Conference.


2010 San Angelo Stampede Express season
Under the leadership of head coach Clint Dolezel, the team played their home games at the Foster Communications Coliseum in San Angelo, Texas.


2010 San Angelo Stampede Express season
The Stampede Express lost to the Billings Outlaws 38-68 in the Intense Conference quarterfinals.


2010 San Angelo Stampede Express season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 19, 201023 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


2010 San Antonio Silver Stars season
The 2010 San Antonio Silver Stars season was the 14th season overall for the franchise in the Women's National Basketball Association, and their 8th in San Antonio.


2010 San Antonio Silver Stars season, Transactions, Dispersal draft
Based on the Silver Stars' 2009 record, they would pick 5th in the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft. The Silver Stars picked Laura Harper.


2010 San Antonio Silver Stars season, Transactions, WNBA Draft
The following are the Silver Stars' selections in the 2010 WNBA Draft.


2010 San Diego Chargers season
The 2010 season was the San Diego Chargers' 41st in the National Football League and their 51st overall. After a loss to the New York Jets in the divisional round of the 2009-10 NFL Playoffs, the Chargers had high hopes of winning their fifth consecutive AFC West division title and contending for a Super Bowl championship. However, they started the season with a 2–3 record for the fourth consecutive year. After a Week 16 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, they were eliminated from postseason contention, and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2005.


2010 San Diego Chargers season
The Chargers used an NFL-record tying 74 players during the season due to injuries. Still, they finished ranked No. 1 in the NFL both on offense and defense. However, their special teams allowed four blocked punts (and had another deflected), three kickoff return touchdowns, and one punt return touchdown. The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote, "[N]o team even came close to having all those special teams foibles in one season." Football Outsiders calculated that the Chargers had the worst special teams in the league in 2010, and the fifth-worst from 1993 to 2010.


2010 San Diego Chargers season
In 2019, SB Nation's "Dorktown" stated that the Chargers' offensive and defensive units made them one of the best teams on paper since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. However, they concluded that San Diego was doomed by poor special teams play which largely contributed to their 2–5 start; indeed, in all five losses, special teams snafus accounted for the margin of defeat. They were 7–2 afterwards. The Chargers believed that they would have made the playoffs were it not for their special teams gaffes. With one additional win, they would have been 10–6 and won the AFC West in a tiebreaker over the Kansas City Chiefs.


2010 San Diego Chargers season
The 2010 season saw the Chargers see their first home blackouts since 2004, and was also the first season since 2000 that future Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson was not on the roster.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason
On February 22, 2010, LaDainian Tomlinson requested his release after nine seasons with the team, and went to the New York Jets.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Offseason, 2010 NFL Draft
After finishing the season with the best record among teams exiting the playoffs in the divisional round, the Chargers picked 28th in the draft. They traded their sixth round pick in a trade that sent defensive tackle Travis Johnson to the Chargers.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 1: at Kansas City Chiefs
The Chargers began their season at Arrowhead Stadium for a division rivalry match against the Kansas City Chiefs. In the first quarter the Chargers took the early lead as QB Philip Rivers completed a 3-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. The Chiefs replied when RB Jamaal Charles made a 56-yard TD run. In the 2nd quarter the Chargers fell behind when QB Matt Cassel completed a 2-yard TD pass to TE Tony Moeaki. This was followed by WR Dexter McCluster returning a punt 94 yards to the endzone for a touchdown. In the third quarter the Chargers cut the lead when QB Philip Rivers threw a 59-yard TD pass to WR Legedu Naanee. In the 4th quarter the Chiefs defense prevented any more scoring from the Chargers.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
Hoping to rebound from their loss to the Chiefs, the Chargers returned home for an AFC duel with the Jaguars. In the 1st quarter, San Diego took the early lead as FB Mike Tolbert made a 2-yard TD run. The Jaguars replied with kicker Josh Scobee hitting a 44-yard field goal. The Chargers increased their lead as QB Philip Rivers completed a 9-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. The Jaguars tried to cut the lead with Scobee nailing a 48-yard field goal.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 2: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
The Chargers continued to score with Rivers making a 4-yard TD pass to Gates; followed in the 3rd quarter by kicker Nate Kaeding getting a 41-yard field goal. In the 4th quarter the Chargers continued to dominate with FB Mike Tolbert getting a 1-yard TD run, followed by Rivers completing a 54-yard TD pass to WR Malcolm Floyd. The lead was slightly narrowed when QB David Garrard made a 3-yard TD pass to WR Mike Sims-Walker.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Seattle Seahawks
Coming off their win over the Jaguars the Chargers flew to Qwest Field where they played their former division rival, the Seattle Seahawks. In the second quarter San Diego trailed early when kicker Olindo Mare made a 23-yard field goal. Then QB Matt Hasselbeck completed a 9-yard TD pass to TE John Carlson. This was followed in the third quarter by RB Leon Washington returning a kickoff 101 yards to the endzone for a touchdown.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 3: at Seattle Seahawks
The Chargers cut the lead with QB Philip Rivers getting a 3-yard TD pass to WR Malcolm Floyd, followed by Hasselbeck getting sacked by ILB Brandon Siler in the endzone for a safety. Then kicker Nate Kaeding made a 29-yard field goal. The Seahawks increased their lead when Mare made a 23-yard field goal, but the Chargers replied and tied the game when Rivers found TE Antonio Gates on a 12-yard TD pass. (With a successful 2-point conversion as Rivers found WR Legedu Naanee). Before the clock struck zero Seattle took the winning score as RB Leon Washington returned his second kickoff of the game into the endzone running 99 yards for a touchdown, giving the Chargers the loss.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Arizona Cardinals
Hoping to rebound from their loss to the Seahawks the Chargers played on home ground for an inter-conference duel with the Cardinals. In the 1st quarter the Chargers took the early lead as QB Philip Rivers completed a 33-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates, but had a problem maintaining this lead in the 2nd quarter when FS Kerry Rhodes recovered a fumble and ran 2 yards to the endzone for a touchdown.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 4: vs. Arizona Cardinals
After that, the Chargers went on a scoring rally with FB Mike Tolbert making a 5-yard TD run, followed by Rivers making a 26-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. Then OLB Shaun Phillips successfully caught an interception and ran 31 yards to the endzone for a touchdown. This was followed in the 3rd quarter by kicker Nate Kaeding making a 48-yard field goal. Then RB Ryan Mathews got a 15-yard TD run. This was followed in the 4th quarter by Kaeding nailing a 47-yard field goal. The Cardinals tried to cut the lead, but only came away with kicker Jay Feely's 53-yard field goal.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Oakland Raiders
Coming off their win over the Cardinals the Chargers flew to Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum for an AFC West division rivalry match against the Raiders. In the first quarter the Chargers' offense had problems when after a three-and-out Mike Scifres' punt was blocked by RB Rock Cartwright out of bounds in the end zone for a safety. Then kicker Sebastian Janikowski made a 50-yard field goal. Then Scifres' punt was blocked again and returned by FS Hiram Eugene 5 yards to the endzone for a touchdown.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Oakland Raiders
The Chargers then fought back and took the lead with QB Philip Rivers completing a 19-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. Then RB Mike Tolbert got a 4-yard TD run. Then the Chargers trailed with Janikowski making a 30-yard field goal. But they responded and got the lead back with kicker Nate Kaeding making a 43-yard field goal, followed in the third quarter by Rivers making a 41-yard TD pass to WR Malcolm Floyd. The Raiders replied with QB Jason Campbell completing a 1-yard TD pass to TE Zach Miller.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Oakland Raiders
Followed in the 4th quarter by Kaeding making a 34-yard field goal. The Chargers fell behind when RB Michael Bush got a 3-yard touchdown run (with a failed 2-point conversion), followed by SS Tyvon Branch recovering a fumble and running 64 yards to the endzone for a touchdown to give the Chargers a loss, for the first time against the Raiders since 2003.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 5: at Oakland Raiders
With the loss, San Diego fell to 2–3 for the 4th straight season.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: at St. Louis Rams
Hoping to rebound from their loss to the Raiders the Chargers flew to Edward Jones Dome for an Interconference duel with the Rams. In the first quarter San Diego trailed early as kicker Josh Brown made a 39-yard field goal, followed by QB Sam Bradford completing a 38-yard TD pass to WR Danario Alexander. The Chargers struggled further in the 2nd quarter when RB Steven Jackson got a 7-yard TD run. The Chargers replied with kicker Nate Kaeding nailing a 41-yard field goal, followed in the third quarter by FB Mike Tolbert getting a 1-yard TD run. In the 4th quarter the Rams' lead increased when Josh Brown hit a 48-yard field goal, but was cut when QB Philip Rivers made a 5-yard TD pass to WR Buster Davis.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 6: at St. Louis Rams
With the loss, San Diego fell to 2–4 and surpassed their 2009 loss total.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots
Hoping to break their current losing streak the Chargers played on home ground for an AFC duel with the Patriots. In the 1st quarter the Chargers took the lead as kicker Kris Brown made a 32-yard field goal, but they fell behind with QB Tom Brady making a 1-yard TD pass to TE Rob Gronkowski; followed in the second quarter by kicker Stephen Gostkowski getting a 40 and a 35-yard field goal. In the third quarter the Chargers continued to struggle with RB BenJarvus Green-Ellis getting a 1-yard TD run.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 7: vs. New England Patriots
In the fourth quarter the Chargers replied with Brown making a 28-yard field goal, but the Patriots continued to score with a 35-yard field goal from Gostkowski. The Chargers tried to cut the lead with QB Philip Rivers making a 4-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates, and with FB Mike Tolbert making a 1-yard TD run, but the Chargers got called for false start which turned a 45yd FG into a 50yd, and Kris Brown missed on the final play.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Tennessee Titans
Hoping to break their current losing streak the Chargers played on home ground for an AFC duel with the Titans. In the first quarter the Chargers trailed early when the Chargers' punt was blocked by Nick Schommer out of bounds for a safety. The Chargers replied with FB Mike Tolbert getting a 1-yard TD run. The Chargers fell behind with kicker Rob Bironas nailing a 21-yard field goal, followed in the second quarter by QB Vince Young completing a 1-yard TD pass to TE Craig Stevens. The Chargers struggled further with RB Chris Johnson getting a 29-yard TD run.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 8: vs. Tennessee Titans
The Chargers then went on a scoring rally with RB Ryan Mathews making a 7-yard TD run, followed in the third quarter by kicker Kris Brown making a 34-yard field goal. Then QB Philip Rivers completed a 48-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates, and then Brown made a 36-yard field goal. The lead was narrowed with Young finding WR Nate Washington on a 71-yard TD pass (with a failed 2-point conversion), but couldn't do anything after Rivers got a 13-yard TD pass to RB Darren Sproles (PAT aborted).


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Houston Texans
Hoping to increase their winning streak the Chargers moved to Reliant Stadium for an AFC duel with the Texans. In the first quarter the Chargers trailed early as RB Arian Foster got an 8-yard TD run. They soon replied with QB Philip Rivers making a 55-yard TD pass to WR Seyi Ajirotutu. They trailed again with kicker Neil Rackers nailed a 27-yard field goal, but took the lead after Rivers got an 11-yard TD pass to TE Randy McMichael.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Houston Texans
They fell behind again in the second quarter as Foster made a 2-yard TD run, followed by Rackers hitting a 21 and a 25-yard field goal. The Chargers eventually pulled themselves in front again, with Rivers finding McMichael again on a 12-yard TD pass. This was followed in the 4th quarter by Rivers' 28-yard TD pass to Ajirotutu (With a successful 2-point conversion as FB Mike Tolbert ran to the endzone).


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 9: at Houston Texans
With the win, the Chargers went into their bye week at 4–5.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 11: Denver Broncos
Coming off their bye week, the Chargers went home for a Week 11 AFC West duel with the Denver Broncos on Monday night. San Diego trailed early in the first quarter as Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno got a 4-yard touchdown run. The Chargers answered with quarterback Philip Rivers finding wide receiver Malcolm Floyd on a 6-yard touchdown pass. San Diego took the lead in the second quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from fullback Mike Tolbert, followed by Rivers finding wide receiver Patrick Crayton on a 40-yard touchdown pass.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 11: Denver Broncos
The Chargers added onto their lead in the third quarter as Rivers connected with running back Darren Sproles on a 57-yard touchdown pass. San Diego continued its dominating night with Rivers' 3-yard touchdown pass to fullback Jacob Hester. Denver would close out the game with quarterback Kyle Orton completing a 13-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Lloyd.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Indianapolis Colts
The Chargers' eleventh game was an AFC duel against the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. They trailed early in the first quarter after QB Peyton Manning made a 4-yard TD pass to TE Jacob Tamme. They eventually pulled ahead after kicker Nate Kaeding made a 28-yard field goal, followed by ILB Kevin Burnett returning an interception 29 yards for a touchdown, and then with Kaeding hitting a 33 and a 50-yard field goal.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 12: at Indianapolis Colts
Their lead was narrowed when Manning made a 6-yard TD pass to WR Blair White, but the Chargers controlled the second half with Kaeding getting a 30-yard field goal, which was shortly followed by FS Eric Weddle returning an interception 41 yards for a touchdown, then with FB Mike Tolbert getting a 3-yard TD run, and Kaeding making a 20-yard field goal, settling both teams records to 6–5.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders
Coming off their win over the Colts the Chargers played on home ground for a rematch against the Raiders. The Chargers trailed early as QB Jason Campbell scrambled 9 yards for a touchdown, followed by his 4-yard TD pass to WR Jacoby Ford. They replied in the second quarter as kicker Nate Kaeding nailed a 39-yard field goal, but trailed further with RB Michael Bush getting a 7-yard TD run. The Chargers cut the lead with Kaeding hitting a 33-yard field goal, followed by QB Philip Rivers completing a 4-yard TD pass to TE Antonio Gates. The Raiders would finish off with Darren McFadden making a 7-yard TD run.


2010 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season results, Week 13: vs. Oakland Raiders
With the loss, San Diego fell to 6–6 and were swept by the Raiders for the first time since 2001.