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Food situation "precarious"

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    An FAO report on the food outlook for Africa has described the situation in the Great Lakes region as "precarious". Efforts to increase food production were hampered by "persistent insecurity, sporadic violence and bad weather," FAO said in a news release on Wednesday. In Burundi, it said food difficulties were particularly serious for some 550,000 people still living in regroupment camps. Burundi, Rwanda, the DRC, Tanzania and Uganda are among 17 sub-Saharan countries listed by the FAO as facing "exceptional food emergencies". [Press release available on IRIN-Extra service].

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