Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa - May 1996
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This is the second issue in 1996 of a series of reports prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation, cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in relief operations. Part I focuses on the unfavourable food supply o utlook for Liberia, where fresh civil disturbances in the capital threaten to undermine the fragile peace accord and further disrupt food production and distribution activities. It draws attention to the continued relief assistance needs of over 2 million refugees and internally displaced persons in the Great Lakes region throughout 1996. The report underlines the food assistance requirements of large numbers of vulnerable people in the Horn of Africa, affected by present and past civil strife a nd/or localized crop failures. Details of crop outlook in southern Africa, where a substantial recovery in output (following last year's drought-affected harvests) is in prospect, also feature in Part I. Attention is also drawn to the localized food supply difficulties in some Sahelian countries of western Africa. The report also contains a special feature on the