Africa report January 1996


Table 2: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1994/95 or 1995
(in thousand tons)

1994 Cereal production 1/
Past imports 2/
Position for 1994/95 or 1995
- -
1993/94 or 1994
-
Food aid
requirements
Cereal import position
- - - - Food aid
Sub-Region/
Country
Marketing
year
Total
As %
of
Average
of previous
5
years
Average for previous 5 years
Total
of which food aid
Cereal
import
require
ments 2/
Antici
pated
com
mercial
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
Countries still in 1994/95 marketing year
Eastern Africa 9 601 109 1 364 1 899 1 550 1 327 382 945 366 45 1 323 1 118 1
Burundi Jan./Dec. 208 75 38 126 96 53 31 22 - - 25 12
Comoros Jan./Dec. 6 100 38 43 6 44 37 7 - 7 9 9
Djibouti Jan./Dec. - - 90 124 10 82 71 11 - 13 23 22
Eritrea Jan./Dec. 259 ... 237 370 287 50 50 - - - 73 55
Ethiopia 4/ Jan./Dec. 6 988 106 839 979 926 964 150 814 366 - 813 677 1
Uganda Jan./Dec. 2 010 120 31 45 26 47 10 37 - 8 40 34
Rwanda Jan./Dec. 130 47 80 199 199 74 20 54 - 16 339 309
Seychelles Jan./Dec. - - 11 13 - 13 13 - - 1 - -
Southern Africa 2 100 167 175 - 170 170 - - 46 1 1
Mauritius Jan./Dec. 2 103 167 175 - 170 170 - - 46 1 1
Western Africa 2 230 97 876 1 055 374 1 126 700 426 - 343 387 358 97
Coastal countries 2 095 97 737 913 306 971 617 354 - 332 304 300 97
Benin Jan./Dec. 640 110 98 78 18 95 86 9 - 96 13 12
Guinea Jan./Dec. 728 115 226 382 86 302 258 44 - 143 14 14 30
Liberia Jan./Dec. 17 20 171 200 162 240 40 200 - 17 243 243
Sierra Leone Jan./Dec. 303 91 153 159 33 206 125 81 - 27 29 26 52
Togo Jan./Dec. 407 78 89 94 8 128 108 20 - 50 5 5 15
Sahelian countries 135 98 138 142 68 155 83 72 - 11 83 59 1
Cape Verde Jan./Dec. 2 20 78 89 64 90 25 65 - 6 77 57
Guinea Bissau Jan./Dec. 133 104 60 53 4 65 58 7 - 6 6 2 1
Central Africa 1 516 107 338 308 96 325 262 63 115 69 67 2
Equat.Guinea Jan./Dec. - - 11 10 3 11 7 4 - - 3 3 1
Gabon Jan./Dec. 26 113 61 52 - 62 62 - - 10 - -
Sao Tome Jan./Dec. - - 13 10 8 12 4 8 - 2 7 7 1
Zaire Jan./Dec. 1 490 107 253 236 85 240 189 51 - 103 59 56
Sub-Total 13 349 107 2 744 3 436 2 020 2 948 1 514 1 434 366 550 1 780 1 543 100

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