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DTIC ADA501445: Military Assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa

On street comers in Abidjan one can see people of all ages begging for food or money. Some are missing limbs, the result of violence of ethnic or civil war, or of disease. Some are deformed from polio. Along the Niger River people from Mali to Nigeria drink from the same dirty river water in which they bathe, wash their clothes, water their livestock, and defecate. The roads between Mombassa, Kenya and Goma, Zaire are often little more than trails of rubble, remnants of what once was a more sophisticated road network, but which, like so many other things in sub- Saharan Africa, has fallen into…