STARVATION
(N.Z.P A.-Meutar—Copyright > GENEVA, March 7. As many as half of the 4 million people in Niger may be dying of starvation, because of drought, twice the previous estimate, according to the League of Red Cross Societies, which groups 121 member-societies throughout the world. . A league spokesman said, yesterday that previous estimates were based solely on the number of nomads wandering fat search of food. “There are another million of the sedentary population who are similarly affected — alf 100 per cent dependent on national and international relief organisations for their very existence.”
The league said that reports from its representsfives in the Sahelian zone of West Africa, which comprises Mali, Chad, Niger, Upper Volta, Senegal and Mauretania — “fnwtt a continuous catalogue of horror.” The Red Cross delegate to Chad, Mr Michael Dym, of Switzerland, said in his last report to the league’s headquarters that drought had killed off all plants in the area he had visited, and that in the prefecture of Kanem between 60 and M oer cent of all animals had died. The league will today launch a new appeal for funds to add to the 17 million Swiss francs (shout S3.Sm) alresdv raised to combat the Sahelian and Ethiopian famines.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33478, 8 March 1974, Page 12
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