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...RIVER NIGER. The hymn-deep, groin-stabbing, laugh-lacerating life of the American black, rendered with love, anger and precision...
...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...
Sadly, there is very little likelihood that Allah will be any more merciful next year than he has been throughout 1973. Mohammed Ibrahim may be alive, but starvation and disease on the three-month trek from drought-ravaged Mali to Niger cost him all his cattle and camels and a third of his family. Now he is destitute, living in a stark hut made oi hides The Niger Red Cross manages to provide him with 150 grams of food per day, which, according to U.N. officials, can only sustain life for a short time...
Despite massive international relict efforts the worst drought in recorded African history has thus far claimed perhaps as many as 100,000 lives in northern Nigeria and in the "Sahel," or subSaharan, nations of Mauritania, Senegal Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad. More than 1,000,000 hungry nomads are roaming the Sahel, surrounding its cities in a futile search for food. Nomads in Chad have been forced to eat leaves and bark to stay alive. In Nigerias parched Northeast, villagers pillage anthills to get at grain kernels that the ants have stored away...
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...