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...many people. But for West Africa these days, the situation is quite literally one of feast or famine. In a massive multi-nation relief effort, grain sacks are piled high in Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos, the chief railheads for the drought-desolated nations of Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali and Senegal. Their antiquated railroad networks cannot move grain quickly enough into the interior. The ongoing airlift offers the most plausible solution, but there are not enough aircraft. The result is that while mass famine has been averted over a 2,600-mi. strip stretching across the southern Sahara, many...
...with good rains," says FAO Spokesman George Dorsey, "there is bound to be a shortfall in this year's harvest. Some farmers, driven off their lands when wells went dry, did not return in time for this year's planting. Others ate their seeds to survive." In Mali alone, the government reports that 250,000 nomads have lost all their animals down to the last goat. For the nomads, that means they have lost everything. Taken as a whole, the six stricken nations may lose 60% of their cattle and 50% of their grain harvests this year...
...African states in or near the Sahara are equally parched and devastated-Senegal, Mauretania, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta and Chad. Weakened by starvation, many black and Arab tribesmen face death from epidemics of cholera and measles...
...faith may soon be shaken. Chinguetti lies directly in the path of totality* of a major solar eclipse that will be visible across northern Africa on June 30. Although solar eclipses are not rare-at least two occur every year-this one will be unusual. Where the borders of Mali, Algeria and Nigeria meet, totality will last 7 min. 4 sec., making the eclipse the second longest in 1,433 years; the only longer one -7 min. 7 sec.-took place in 1955. A comparable eclipse will not occur again until the year 2150. Thus scientists from a dozen countries...
Hardest hit is Mali, a landlocked country where livestock are considered more precious than money. There, at least 1,000,000 of the nation's estimated 5,000,000 cattle have perished in the worst drought in memory...