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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...
...drought area stretches across the entire waist of Africa, from Mauritania in the west to Ethiopia in the east In Ethiopia, more than 50,000 have died of starvation. Many mothers have had to sacrifice their weakest children by drawing emergency food rations for them and then using the food to feed the others. So great is the catastrophe, says one local priest, that the traditional public weeping and wailing for the dead has been abandoned; the people have lost the will...
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...
...mount, and lead from melted car batteries.... Total eclipses are the ideal time for Vulcan hunts, since the sun is high but the sky is dark. Fischer was going to use an enormous aerial camera from World War II to photograph the region between the sun and Mercury....Mauritania has one modern hospital. Six doctors. Four midwives. Fifty-eight secondary school teachers. But that's an improvement...."I felt that shadow come right through my skin and the marrow of my bones." --From Darkness over the desert, a scientific adventure story by Anne Fadiman...
...killed 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...