Birthmark Shape and Location Meanings. Birthmarks, which are simply colored spots on skin, have long been suspected of having a meaning. Different cultures have different beliefs based on folklore and superstition. Folklore suggests that what a woman was experiencing during pregnancy is imprinted on the child in the form of a birthmark.
The Sahel (/sÉËhÉl/) is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara Desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. Having a semi-arid climate, it stretches across the south-central latitudes of Northern Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea.
  The Sahara desert is in northern Africa, where it occupies parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.he Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world covering 3.6 milllion square miles, but Antarictica covers 5.5 million square miles and has less than 10 inches of precipitat â¦ ion per year.