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The Arabic word meaning "shore" or "edge" that borders the Sahara desert is "Maghreb." Maghreb is also used to refer to the region in North Africa that includes countries like Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
A Sahel is a strip of land that divides the desert from the wetter areas. A Sahel has a steppe climate which means rainfall varies there from year to year. it is also quite dry, but does provide some vegetation for animals to graze. A sahel is the fringe of the desert. A desert can spread and grow because of overgrazing and deforestation. The sahel is the edge which is spreading.
Someone called it that.
The Arabic word sāḥil (ساحل) literally means "shore, coast".
Sahel
Yes, it is a transition zone from the desert to a grassland or forest biome and called the Sahel.
The Sahel is a semiarid region just south of the Sahara. It is a transition zone between the Sahara and grasslands further south. It is rapidly turning into true desert due to a process called desertification.
The Sahel receives slightly more annual rainfall than a true, arid desert.