Nov. 6, 2000. This town, largely lit by kerosene lamps at night, is a center for refugee relief.
Agencies here provide minimal services to refugees from the wars in Zaire and Sudan.
This town is also a front in the battles against seven plagues. Three other plagues proceed unchecked. Leprosy, for which there is no treatment, continues to erode its victims' hands, feet and faces. Several hundred cases and 80 deaths occurred a hundred miles from here. I landed at the dirt airstrip on the day of the rumor.