Are these paraphrases?
Equatorial Africa is an ambiguous term that sometimes is used to refer to tropical Sub-Saharan Africa , or the equatorial region of Africa traversed by the equator .
Equatorial Africa is an ambiguous term that is sometimes used to refer to sub-Saharan tropical Africa or the equatorial region of Africa crossed by the equator .

pick from the following.
(A). no.
(B). yes.
(B).