Reports

Summary Poorly distributed rainfall characterized the first season, resulting in a reduction of approximately fifty percent in the national production of cereals -- maize, millet and sorghum. Lower than normal sorghum production in Kotido and Moroto Districts (Karamoja Region), following immediately…

Summary From May 22 to June 3, 2000, a joint Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry (MINAGRI), FAO, WFP, Projet d'Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire (PASAR) and FEWS crop assessment mission was conducted throughout the country. Although a change in…

Summary A joint Government of Ethiopia, donor and NGO food needs assessment, conducted in May, determined that the failure of the belg rains has increased the food aid requirement for 2000 by between 2.3 and 3.1 million…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A field assessment mission comprised of representatives from UNICEF, the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG), the Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission (ERREC) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) departed Asmara on the 16th of…

SUMMARY Maize available in Zimbabwe for the 2000/01 marketing year (April - March) is expected to reach about 2.54 million tons. This supply is made up of an estimated gross harvest in 2000 of about 2.1 million tons, 357,000 tons…

SUMMARY Insecurity in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Upper Nile Regions continues to cause population displacements to perceived safer locations, and is interfering with access to food. Following the occupation of Gogrial town by Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) forces,…

SUMMARY The summer rains, between June and July, have been well below average. Some long-cycle crops such as maize and finger millet were subjected to water stress due to excessive heat in May and June. This year's overall sown…

Highlights In June, low river levels are causing concern for irrigated production. Although the level of Shabelle River was sufficiently high to allow gravity irrigation, farmers in Hiran and Upper parts of Middle Shabelle region were using…

NAIROBI, 30 August (IRIN) - The newly elected president of Somalia, Abdiqassim Salad Hassan, arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, to an ecstatic welcome on Wednesday morning from the public and a show of support from militiamen previously allied to…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org BURUNDI: Annan praises Arusha deal UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the agreement reached on 28 August…