- WANA stands for West Asia North Africa
- The WANA region is characterized by high population growth, low and erratic rainfall, limited arable land, and severely limited water resources.
- It comprises 27 countries with almost 600 million inhabitants with Morocco in west, Pakistan and Afghanistan in east, Turkey in north, and Ethiopia and Sudan in south.
- The region has been at conflict since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and notably after the creation of Israel.
- Besides this region has seen rise of terrorism, Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, conflict between Arabs and Berbers. US intervention of Iraq in 2003, rise of IS, Arab Spring that spread civil wars like situations in the whole region such as Syrian Civil War, Libyan Civil War, Iraq War and Yemeni Civil War.