31.   Experts say the despair stems from asylum seekers not being told how long they will be held in the Spartan camps, some of them in remote desert regions.

32.   Full-scale war broke out the following year after Morocco annexed part of the desert region.

33.   Heavy snowfall was reported in southern districts and sandstorms in desert regions on the eastern border with Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

34.   It is the center for the oil strikes of ultra-light low-sulphur grades of crude announced in the central desert regions of Saudi Arabia in recent years.

35.   Mobile stations in the vast Sahara desert region have been collecting ballots since Monday.

36.   Morocco and the Polisario Front both claim the mineral-rich desert region on the Atlantic coast.

37.   Oil Minister Hisham Nazer announced Thursday a new discovery of super-light crude in a central desert region.

38.   She is a member of the Bani Sakhr tribe, one of the largest and most prominent bedouin clans residing in the central desert region of the kingdom.

39.   The Shaybah development is in the so-called Empty Quarter desert region of Saudi Arabia.

40.   This year, flooding and mudslides have hit areas ranging from the northwestern desert region of Xinjiang to the central province of Hubei.