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...third of the population is said to have died from malnourishment and disease. This latest calamity is part of a 30-year pattern that has seen the rains repeatedly fail along the Sahel, the wide swath of land that cuts Africa in half just below the Sahara. After the 1984-85 drought, which killed an estimated 2 million people in Africa, there was a brief period of uncommon optimism in Addis Ababa. In 1985 and 1986 the rains were good for the first time since 1981. Though hunger persisted, no one was starving. When the rains came on schedule last...
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Burkina Faso is an impoverished, landlocked country of 105,869 square miles just south of the Sahara Desert...
...most glaring has been the intractable misery of Africa despite more than 20 years of intensive foreign assistance. A recent study by the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found "virtually no progress in per-capita income over the past two decades" in countries south of the Sahara Desert. Worse yet, said the report, sub-Saharan Africa now produces less food per person than it did in 1960, despite the tens of billions of aid dollars spent on rural development. Among reasons for this dismal record: ceaseless political strife, wrongheaded economic policies and a harsh and erratic climate...
...development assistance, now stresses military rather than humanitarian help. The largest U.S.-aid recipients last year were Israel ($3 billion) and Egypt ($2 billion), and more than half of that assistance was in the form of weapons and other defense hardware. Not a single African country south of the Sahara was among the top-ten American-aid recipients. "We're basically out of the development business," says Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine. "In the long run, that is unwise...