Africa Report 05/96

Table 2: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995/96 or 1996 (in thousand tons)

		1995 Cereal production 1/		1994/95 or 1995 imports			Position for 1995/96 or 1996
							-		Food aid requirements		Cereal import position
-							-				-	Food aid
Sub-Region/ Country	Marketing year	Total	As %of Average of previous 5 years	Total	Average for previous 5 years	Food aid	Cereal import require ments 2/	Antici pated commercial imports	Total	of which excep tional	Commer cial imports already made or contracted	Pledges 3/	of which received so far	Uncov. food aid require ments
Eastern Africa		23 114	117	3 030	96	1 553	2 171	1 413	758	5	189	621	340	377
Burundi	Jan./Dec.	272	100	58	152	26	54	31	23	-	-	9	-	14
Comoros	Jan./Dec.	14	233	44	115	9	44	34	10	-	-	-	-	10
Djibouti	Jan./Dec.	-	-	120	135	22	80	59	21	5	1	2	-	19
Eritrea	Jan./Dec.	142	...	95	40	63	291	100	191	-	-	58	15	133
Ethiopia 4/	Jan./Dec.	8 614	126	702	84	687	80	-	80	-	-	227	136
Kenya	July/June	3 361	114	807	109	145	575	565	10	-	139	52	22
Rwanda	Jan./Dec.	143	57	339	422	319	148	20	128	-	-	169	111
Seychelles	Jan./Dec.	-	-	13	118	-	13	13	-	-	-	-	-
Somalia	Sept./Aug.	284	88	142	68	42	320	125	195	-	16	24	20	171
Sudan	Nov./Oct.	3 894	99	440	61	65	480	402	78	-	-	61	24	17
Tanzania	June/May	4 342	124	216	189	139	45	45	-	-	33	10	7
Uganda	Jan./Dec.	2 048	117	54	177	37	41	19	22	-	-	11	6	11
Southern Africa		14 555	76	3 741	73	772	5 190	4 141	1 049	414	2 435	1 159	942	69
Angola	Apr./Mar.	273	83	428	148	283	560	200	360	130	30	291	232	69
Botswana	Apr./Mar.	46	115	119	60	6	238	238	-	-	75	7	7
Lesotho	Apr./Mar.	89	52	204	87	25	277	217	60	37	60	62	62
Madagascar	Apr./Mar.	1 805	100	182	164	30	146	119	27	-	2	34	21
Malawi	Apr./Mar.	1 662	120	468	161	136	180	37	143	46	8	218	212
Mauritius	Jan./Dec.	2	100	170	102	1	174	174	-	-	7	-	-
Mozambique	Apr./Mar.	1 088	183	328	53	274	446	84	362	104	127	398	353
Namibia	May/April	59	66	77	78	-	142	142	-	-	137	11	11
South Africa	May/April	7 588	67	1 122	51	-	1 697	1 697	-	-	1 431	-	-
Swaziland	May/April	71	70	76	130	9	93	84	9	9	93	14	6
Zambia	May/April	882	74	379	140	3	577	489	88	88	161	118	37
Zimbabwe	Apr./Mar.	990	48	188	31	5	660	660	-	-	305	7	1
Western Africa		25 693	102	4 508	112	654	4 490	3 715	775	34	1 179	415	209	386
*Coastal countries*		*16 992*	*102*	*2 846*	*119*	*442*	*2 785*	*2 284*	*501*	30	*1 115*	*282*	*158*	*234*
Benin	Jan./Dec.	654	109	102	106	17	100	88	12	-	18	9	2	3
Côte d'Ivoire	July/June	1 065	105	499	99	55	587	537	50	-	190	65	32
Ghana	Oct./Sept.	1 738	133	318	107	97	270	180	90	-	57	53	27	37
Guinea	Jan./Dec.	662	98	328	145	6	300	258	42	-	-	3	-	39
Liberia	Jan./Dec.	38	75	250	146	234	230	28	202	30	-	137	95	65
Nigeria	July/June	12 127	99	1 070	125	-	920	920	-	-	840	-	-
Sierra Leone	Jan./Dec.	274	86	178	116	28	230	150	80	-	-	15	1	65
Togo	Jan./Dec.	434	89	100	113	5	148	123	25	-	10	1	1	24
*Sahelian countries*		*8 701*	*102*	*1 662*	102	*212*	*1 705*	*1 431*	*274*	4	64	*133*	51	*152*
Burkina Faso	Nov./Oct.	2 280	100	131	73	43	140	102	38	-	-	25	10	13
Cape Verde	Jan./Dec.	8	89	94	120	77	90	25	65	-	-	53	4	12
Chad	Nov./Oct.	882	103	60	92	13	65	63	2	-	-	13	7
Gambia	Nov./Oct.	92	99	88	125	3	100	89	11	4	-	4	1	7
Guinea Bissau	Jan./Dec.	157	118	69	115	2	65	59	6	-	-	3	2	3
Mali	Nov./Oct.	2 026	99	83	73	17	105	80	25	-	-	7	7	18
Mauritania	Nov./Oct.	175	156	222	96	28	240	190	50	-	-	16	14	34
Niger	Nov./Oct.	2 073	96	166	99	13	200	150	50	-	4	10	4	40
Senegal	Nov./Oct.	1 008	112	749	114	16	700	673	27	-	60	3	3	24
Central Africa		3 023	122	717	93	82	802	702	100	0	40	49	17	70
Cameroon	July/June	1 236	137	285	96	3	325	320	5	-	29	3	3	2
Cent.Afr.Rep.	Sept./Aug.	100	109	30	72	1	34	32	2	-	-	-	-	2
Congo	July/June	21	100	97	102	12	108	105	3	-	-	22	9
Equat.Guinea	Jan./Dec.	-	-	11	103	3	11	6	5	-	-	-	-	5
Gabon	Jan./Dec.	26	108	62	102	-	62	62	-	-	2	-	-
Sao Tome	Jan./Dec.	-	0	12	92	7	12	4	8	-	-	1	-	7
Zaire	Jan./Dec.	1 640	115	219	87	56	250	173	77	-	9	22	5	55
TOTAL		66 385	100	11 997	92	3 060	12 653	9 971	2 682	453	3 842	2 244	1 508	902

Note : Totals computed from unrounded data.
1/ Including rice in milled equivalent.
2/ Excludes re-exports.
3/ Includes all pledges reported to the GIEWS , whether for free distribution or market sale. However, there may be some case where governments count some food aid received for market sale against commercial import requirements.
4/ Includes refugee needs.