Van onze contactpersoon:
I spoke with our contact yesterday and it's enormous: About half of Agadez is gone, some of the road to Niamey (and Arlit? that I'm not sure), many mosques, all the bus agencies, the little shops with food, trees, all the harvest of onions that the "commercants" brought into town from the gardens, all the gardens in the environment, many, many animals, also in the desert. The family of our contact could rescue the tent but not the little animals like the goats or sheep. And they live in the desert not far from Arlit. So I have no idea what happened in Arlit.
They have no clean water and electricity anymore and food will become very scarce in little time as there is no traffic coming from Niamey anymore. People help one another but there are also the ones who take advantage and steal what they can. Obviously the police is trying to keep that under control but the state isn’t doing anything. Our contact said that yesterday CARITAS, a Swiss organization, started to work and distribute tents, but other than that no other organization has started their work yet and I didn't see anything in the news.
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But I'm sure the clear facts are not going to be known until someone neutral can write a report on it because they are all under shock.
So if you'd manage to bring "mattelas", blankets, clothes, shoes, tents, goods for the household (kitchenware, radios, flashlight), medicaments and water filters, but also money to reestablish their houses etc. that would be terrific.
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