Word: tuareg
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...cattle and seed grain, thus condemning themselves to total dependence on outside help. Unless they receive aid, they will be unable to plant new crops or raise new herds even if the rains do come. The Sahel's flat savannas, which once supported the blue-and black-robed Tuareg and Fulani warriors, are now empty, save for the thousands of reddish brown mounds that mark the graves of those who starved. At least 100,000 have died...
...measles, influenza and cholera. Reports TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs, who has logged 7,000 miles touring the drought area: "There are experts with many years' experience in the Sahel who see no end in sight to the cycle of drought, famine and death. The Sahel's Tuareg nomads have a saying, 'When the camel collapses, the game is over.' For them, now clustered in refugee camps and having seen their camels die of starvation, the game is all but over...
...evaluate his guides and companions along the way. He confronts the colossal reluctance he felt at having to haul himself into the saddle each morning for another day of pain. Thirst reduced him to almost incoherent terror. Every chance encounter - whether with a lone sheepherder or a cold-eyed Tuareg tribesman - knotted his insides with anxiety...
...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...
Daisy majored in mathematics and minored in anthropology, turned out a 60-page honors thesis on the effect of warfare upon the social organization of the Tuareg cattle herders in the Sahara. Yet she was equally proficient in courses ranging from Schiller to statistics. She has won a Woodrovv Wilson Fellowship, which she will use to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at Yale. There, she assumes, her succession of A's "will all be over." But no one who knows Daisy will bet on that...