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Sub- region/ Country	Marketing year	1999 Cereal production 1/		Position for 1999/2000
		Total	As % of average of previous 5 years	Cereal import require- ments 2/	Antici- pated comm- ercial imports	Food aid requirements		Cereal import position
						Food aid requirements		Comm- ercial imports already made or contracted	Food aid
						Total	of which: excep- tional	Comm- ercial imports already made or contracted	Pledges	of which received so far	Uncov. food aid require- ments
Eastern Africa		4 029	97	1 000	780	220	-	51	2	2	218
Somalia	Aug./July	241	81	330	185	145	-	-	-	-	145
Tanzania	June/May	3 788	98	670	595	75	-	51	2	2	73
Southern Africa		18 389	89	5 482	5 136	346	-	210	148	31	213
Angola	April/March	533	129	505	325	180	-	-	9	9	171
Botswana	April/March	24	63	245	245	-	-	-	-	-
Lesotho	April/March	177	95	198	188	10	-	-	-	-	10
Madagascar	April/March	1 907	105	150	135	15	-	-	7	6	8
Malawi	April/March	2 496	150	52	52	-	-	-	14	14	-
Mozambique	April/March	1 625	129	320	180	140	-	63	116	-	24
Namibia	May/April	72	73	142	142	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Africa	May/April	8 109	70	2 948	2 948	-	-	147	-	-	-
Swaziland	May/April	111	108	58	58	-	-	-	-	-	-
Zambia	May/April	1 160	107	314	313	1	-	-	2	2
Zimbabwe	April/March	2 175	95	550	550	-	-	-	-	-
TOTAL		22 418	91	6 482	5 916	566	-	261	150	33	431

1/ Including rice in milled equivalent.
2/ Excluding re-exports.

TABLE 1: CEREAL IMPORTS AND FOOD AID REQUIREMENTS IN 1999/2000 FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE ENTERED THEIR 1999/2000 MARKETING YEAR ( IN THOUSAND TONNES )