Markets in Burkina Faso remained well supplied with cereals and other staples up to early January. Produce from off-season gardening is available in markets.
For the second consecutive year in neighbouring Niger, the availability of food is expected to be above average for 1999/2000, and the National Early Warning System, SAPS, says there will not be any need for emergency food aid.
Despite this, SAPS says that food security is tenuous in some parts of the country. It has determined that seven cities and 35 districts are vulnerable to food insecurity, the worst affected being Guidan Roundji, Bilma (about 1,310 km northeast of the capital, Niamey) and Diffa, some 1,070 km east of Niamey.
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