1 | A city of northeast Nigeria east of Kano. It is a leather-processing center in the Lake Chad region. Population, 225, 100. | |
2 | The latest outbreak has been particularly severe in Nigeria, Niger, and Chad. | |
3 | In Chad, where meningitis drugs are difficult to find, one in 10 people infected with the disease dies. | |
4 | He says something must be done urgently to reverse the tragic disappearance of Lake Chad if the livelihoods of this vast area are to be safeguarded. | |
5 | But extensive irrigation projects, the encroaching desert and an increasingly dry climate have caused to shrink to 5% its former size. |