| 1 | This will be the first government data portal of its kind in Sub Saharan Africa. | |
| 2 | The story begins over nine thousand years ago, in the vast expanses of the Sahara. | |
| 3 | It does have, I think, the most severe inequality of any region in the world except for sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| 4 | Today it continues to expand in almost all world regions, with the notable exception of sub-Saharan Africa. | |
| 5 | Yemen is the Arabian Peninsula' s poorest state and more closely resembles many sub-Saharan countries than any of its Gulf neighbors. |