Word: malis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three as yet unselected Harvard students will travel to sub-Sahara Africa in January to assist Mali tribesmen in building an adequate and reliable water supply system...
...expedition, led by Hans Guggenheim, a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will try to solve the acute water shortage caused by a five-year drought by constructing water storage systems within the framework of traditional Mali technology, Guggenheim said...
Guggenheim, who became concerned about the plight of the Dogon tribe in Mali during a trip there three years ago, has asked Everett I. Mendelsohn, chairman of the History of Science Department, to provide the names of three Harvard students who might go on the expedition. However, Guggenheim said that he will also consider applications from other students...
...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...
...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...