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The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Wednesday that Angola will need 333,000 mt of emergency food assistance for at least the next 12 months.
Announcing the results of a survey conducted three weeks ago, it said the resumption of the country’s civil war in 1998 “continue to cause serious concern despite efforts by the government and its humanitarian partners to redress the situation”.
It cited figures of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) that continued warfare had pushed the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to nearly 2.6 million, 1.9 million of whom urgently need humanitarian assistance.
It estimated the 1999/2000 cereal production at 504,000 mt, about 5 percent lower than last year, due mainly to unfavourable rainfall patterns and shortages of essential inputs.
Angola’s cereal import requirements for 2000/01 (April/March) were estimated at 753,000 mt, of which commercial imports were estimated at 420,000 mt.
“International emergency food assistance amounting to 333,000 mt will be needed in the year 2000/01 (March/April),” it said. “Insecurity continues to hamper road transport to and within most of the country’s provincial locations, making costly air transport the only alternative.”
Full details of the FAO Special Report are available on the Internet as part
of the FAO World Wide Web at the following URL address:
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/alertes/sptoc.htm
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