Word: niamey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from diphtheria was quicker and hence easier than the slower death from starvation...
...wrinkled old Tuareg looked out across the windblown desert surrounding the squalid refugee camp near the Niger capital of Niamey, where he and 5,000 others now live. "This year," he said it was the animals that died. Most of us managed to survive. But next year, unless Allah is most merciful, it will be our turn...