Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while U.S. corporations invest more money to bolster apartheid in South Africa than is invested in all other African countries south of the Sahara combined, the investment-hungry, market-poor black countries can only resent the pattern; they are hardly in a position to reverse it or entice a higher level of investment for themselves...
...States, the United Nations, Common Market countries and religious organizations have shipped "plenty of food, probably as much as is necessary" to the six stricken African nations. "The problem now is to reach the distant nomadic peoples who haven't been driven to the cities out of the sub-Sahara...
...There is a question as to whether the famine is the result of a six-or seven-year drought or a massive movement of the Sahara to the south due to overgrazing," Mayer added. He pointed out that from Roman times through the 12th century Libya had been irrigated and fertile. Poor agricultural practices led to Libya's present aridity, he said...
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...
...savannah grass has been replaced by seasonal crops, and available ground water has been squandered. Most damaging of all, the inhabitants have allowed their huge herds of livestock to denude the land through overgrazing. These practices, combined with the drought, have killed off the natural vegetation and allowed the Sahara to creep southward-in some places, says AID, by "as much as 30 miles a year...