The Sahara desert is a natural barrier that separates Northern and Central Africa.

撒哈拉沙漠是分隔北非和中非的天然屏障。

Ten-second trivia time: What sea separates northern Africa and Europe?

十秒钟冷知识：北非和欧洲之间是什么海？

Each year, huge storms form in the Sahara desert of northern Africa.

每年都会有几次从非洲北部的撒哈拉沙漠刮来的沙尘暴。

But first, we're following up on a situation in Northern Africa.

但首先, 我们继续关注北非的境况。

In northern Africa, along the Mediterranean coast, is a country called Tunis.

在北非，地中海沿岸，有一个叫突尼斯的国家。

In May, Spain deployed troops to the Spanish territory of Ceuta in northern Africa.

今年5月，西班牙向北非的西班牙领土休达部署了军队。

Now the European Union is working hard to block paths to Europe through northern Africa.

现在，欧盟正在努力阻断通过非洲北部入境欧洲的陆路通道。

They were once found in northern Africa, but they went extinct there in the 1870s.

北非也曾出现过熊，不过在1870年就绝种了。

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in 1931 in the town of Klerksdorp in northern South Africa.

德斯蒙德·米皮罗·图图于1931年出生在南非北部的克克莱克斯多普镇。

Andrew Lebovich studies northern Africa for the Clingendael Institute, a research group based in the Netherlands.

安德鲁·勒博维奇为总部设在荷兰的研究机构克林根代尔研究所研究北非。

We leave London on 15th July, and we'll be taking a fly to Morocco, in northern Africa.

我们7月15日离开伦敦，然后飞到北非的摩洛哥。

The Roman Empire was vast and stretched all the way from Northern Africa to the British Isles.

罗马帝国幅员辽阔，从北非一直延伸到不列颠群岛。

In addition to the Faroes, parts of Europe, Northern Asia and Northern Africa could see a partial eclipse.

除了法罗群岛，欧洲、北亚及北非等国家也能观测到这次日全食。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exhausted and cold, thousands of Moroccan migrants swam their way through Spanish enclave Ceuta in northern Africa.

成千上万的摩洛哥移民精疲力竭、全身寒冷地游过位于北非的西班牙飞地休达。

On Sunday, Spanish crews picked up 447 people making the dangerous crossing from Northern Africa. They rescued 329 on Saturday.

周日，西班牙船员救助了447名来自北非的移民，周六他们营救了329人。

Rather than the desert we know today, Northern Africa was covered by grass, forests, and lakes and it rained there a ton.

北非不是我们今天所知的沙漠，而是被草地、森林和湖泊覆盖，那里经常下雨。

They were driven from Palestine by nationalist forces in 1946, They managed to hold on to Algeria, in northern Africa, until 1962.

1946年他们被民族力量逐出了巴勒斯坦，但是设法保住了北非的阿尔及利亚，直到1962年。

Hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East, southern Asia and northern Africa either entered or tried to get into Europe.

来自中东、南亚和北非的数十万人或进入或试图进入欧洲。

In northern Africa and coastal Spain, once Carthaginian territory, great cities already existed and were allowed much the same rights as Greek cities.

在北非和原本是迦太基的西班牙海滨地区，大城市已经存在了，它们和希腊城市一样 拥有了同样的权利。

You see, way back in ancient times a Greek city in northern Africa became very wealthy selling a super rare plant called a silphium.

在古代，北非的一个希腊城市因为出售一种叫做 silphium 的超级稀有植物变得非常富有。