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Growing conditions are satisfactory for recently planted rice and root crops and abundant rainfall was recorded in May. However, insecurity in most parts continues to disrupt agriculture and rehabilitation, mainly delivery of agricultural inputs. The security situation has improved during…

Growing conditions have been satisfactory since the beginning of the rainy season, and torrential rainfall has been recorded in May and early June. Occasional fighting continues in the north, disrupting food aid deliveries and causing some population displacement to Guinea.…

SPECIAL REPORT CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY SITUATION IN LIBERIA 26 January 1999 ° 1.OVERVIEW ° 2. FOODCROP PRODUCTION IN 1998 ° 2.1 Factors Affecting Foodcrop Production ° 2.2 Production ° 3. CEREAL SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN 1999 1.OVERVIEW Since 1996 it…

For more than a year and a half, families in the West African nation of Sierra Leone have been struggling to provide for themselves in the midst of a conflict between rebel military forces and the elected government. In…

ACT ALERT Sierra Leone - No 1/99 Geneva, 8 January 1999 According to UN and media reports, rebel forces from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the ousted Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) stormed into Freetown on Wednesday (6 January) seizing…

Introduction Continuing peace in Liberia has allowed humanitarian agency activities to be increasingly directed towards repatriation, resettlement and rehabilitation, with programmes shifting from emergency relief to development. As a result, there have been many initiatives to improve…

SPECIAL REPORT1. OVERVIEW In view of the intense civil strife in the Republic of Congo between May and November 1997 and the consequent large-scale displacement of the population, especially from the urban to rural areas, an FAO/WFP…

Claude Bruderlein Team Leader Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs I. Introduction 1. The UN Security Council in its informal consultations on 22 December 1997 requested a technical analysis of the humanitarian situation in Sierra Leone since the coup d'état , including the…

United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance Team Members Mikaela Meredith Alden Henderson, Ph.D., MPH Scott Lillibridge, M.D. Royce Shearing Team Leader, Program Officer Water/Sanitation Consultant Health Consultant Logistics/Communications Consultant I. Executive Summary On June 5, 1997, fighting erupted in…

INTRODUCTION COUNTRIES FACING EXCEPTIONAL FOOD EMERGENCIESHIGHLIGHTSCONTENTSPART I: OVERVIEWPART II : POSITION BY SUB-REGIONLOCUST AND GRASSHOPPER SITUATIONPART III : Crop Prospects and Food Supply Positionin Individual Countries(situation as of early July 1997)TERMINOLOGY The designations employed and the presentation of…