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GUINEA-BISSAU:

It is hoped that peace talks currently underway will permit the return of the displaced populations and normal agricultural and marketing activities. Following the ceasefire agreement signed on July 26, the government of Guinea Bissau and the rebels started peace talks in late August. Most of the 350,000 people who fled Bissau and the main towns due to the fighting which started in late June, should be able to return to their homes. Food has been distributed by WFP to displaced people in the north and north-east.

Satellite imagery indicates that abundant and widespread rains covered the entire country in August and early September. Hopefully, the cease-fire in late July permitted farmers to undertake replanting of rice in swamps but the availability of seeds and delays in the preparation of rice seedbeds due to insecurity in June/July is likely to have severely limited areas planted.

 

 

Satellite Images (Cold Cloud Duration for the last three dekads)
 
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