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...Nigeria's Coup...
...title of your article "The Light That Failed" [Jan. 16] shows that you are trying to measure Nigeria by U.S. standards. In a poor country, bread and butter come before your so-called democracy...
...control, the plight of rural areas has worsened. Often the state pays artificially low prices for farm commodities in order to finance urban-development schemes and to lower prices for people in the cities. One result: the importation of food has tripled in Africa during the past decade. Nigeria, which was once largely self-sufficient, spends $2 billion a year on imported food. In terms of per capita income and the availability of food, the citizens of many sub-Saharan countries are worse off now than they were at independence...
...million. It has raised the price of bread 25% and milk 50%. In addition, the government has raised taxes and devalued the Zimbabwe dollar in order to qualify for $375 million in IMF and World Bank loans to improve railroads and roads. Before General Buhari's coup, Nigeria had hoped to receive a threeyear, $2 billion IMF loan. But like the Shagari government...
...others: former President Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroon and Nigeria's former military leader, General Olusegun Obasanjo...