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Disaster in the Desert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2017

Hal Sheets  and
Roger Morris
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Extract

This article is excerpted from a study sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace which began in the summer of 1973. The work was conceived as a relatively limited inquiry into the role of planning in disaster relief, and as it progressed, the scope of the study broadened to include other dimensions of the United States and United Nations response to the tragedy in the Sahel. What follows, however, is but a fragment of the complex story of the disaster and the continuing international relief effort. It is mainly an account of how the crisis was dealt with by the U.S. government. As such, it is only a beginning of the research and analysis that should be prompted by this catastrophe.

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , Spring 1974 , pp. 24 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1974 

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* Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda — the latter three combined in a regional grouping of “East Africa.” U.S. aid also “concentrated” on Sudan before that country broke relations after the 1967 Middle EEast war.