Word: chadli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite massive international relict efforts the worst drought in recorded African history has thus far claimed perhaps as many as 100,000 lives in northern Nigeria and in the "Sahel," or subSaharan, nations of Mauritania, Senegal Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad. More than 1,000,000 hungry nomads are roaming the Sahel, surrounding its cities in a futile search for food. Nomads in Chad have been forced to eat leaves and bark to stay alive. In Nigerias parched Northeast, villagers pillage anthills to get at grain kernels that the ants have stored away...
Terrible Mistakes. In Africa, a five-year drought has parched the 2,600 mile-long "savannah belt," just south of the Sahara Desert. As a result, large portions of six African nations-Senegal, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali, Chad and Niger-now subsist mainly on international contributions of food (TIME, Sept. 3). Although man cannot be blamed for the lack of rain, a recent study by the U.S. Agency for International Development reports that the Africans' efforts to gain a better living from the potentially productive land have made a bad situation much worse...
...five year drought has devastated Mauritainia, Senegal, Mali, Upper Volta, Niger, and Chad. Afro says that the early estimate of Andre Coulbary, a Senegali official, that six million west Africans would die of malnutrition by the end of October has been "somewhat" reduced by international...
...architecture major, but spent much of his time playing folk or rhythm and blues at local clubs. After 2½ years, he pulled out for the hootenanny life of Southern California, along the way changing his name from Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. In 1965 he joined the Chad Mitchell Trio, replacing Chad Mitchell himself, who was going out on his own. With acid rock on the rise, those were hard days for folk groups, and the Mitchell Trio was already $40,000 in the red. Long after Denver had turned solo in 1969 and signed with RCA, he was still...
...Cross assistance efforts. "It has been a magnificent global effort," says Maurice J. Williams, the AID official who heads the U.S. program. "Without it, there would have been mass famine." While effective, the effort has been hampered by instances of corruption or indifference, particularly in Mali and Chad. Shrugged a Chad colonel when asked about piles of undistributed food: "If the nomads are hungry, let them come to population centers." Malian officials have also displayed a spectacular indifference to distributing supplies...