Africa report January 1996


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

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 which have entered their 1995/96 marketing year
Eastern Africa 12 321 120 1 783 2 587 621 1 495 1 080 415 200 1 195 473 441 106
Kenya July/June 3 494 123 742 1 666 297 290 170 120 100 643 176 168
Somalia Sept./Aug. 408 111 207 122 89 295 125 170 100 100 64 54 106
Sudan Nov./Oct. 5 104 154 719 661 215 475 475 - - 375 90 77
Tanzania June/May 3 315 89 114 138 19 435 310 125 - 77 143 143
Southern Africa 7 870 98 2 781 2 343 966 2 957 1 457 1 500 549 1 621 1 079 903 439
South Africa May/April 15 912 143 2 204 1 004 - 1 030 1 030 - - 1 111 - -
Angola Apr./Mar. 262 79 289 253 194 560 100 460 360 145 291 257 169
Botswana Apr./Mar. 50 111 199 241 5 220 220 - - 113 6 6
Lesotho Apr./Mar. 256 161 234 242 28 204 174 30 - 177 28 27 2
Madagascar Apr./Mar. 1 764 98 111 115 33 178 130 48 14 153 32 27 16
Malawi Apr./Mar. 1 095 74 290 245 171 493 48 445 175 261 352 225 93
Mozambique Apr./Mar. 784 144 622 538 428 600 105 495 - 43 347 347 148
Namibia May/April 119 137 98 127 4 86 86 - - 93 - -
Swaziland May/April 99 94 59 69 22 76 64 12 - 67 9 9 3
Zambia May/April 1 165 86 271 12 9 390 380 10 - 386 3 1 7
Zimbabwe Apr./Mar. 2 276 107 608 501 71 150 150 - - 183 12 6
Western Africa 25 389 112 3 145 3 629 365 3 114 2 807 307 10 3 024 399 311 48
Coastal countries 15 539 106 1 661 2 192 189 1 875 1 735 140 10 1 735 212 160
Côte d'Ivoire July/June 1 037 104 506 380 48 500 450 50 10 444 92 56
Ghana Oct./Sept. 1 540 125 296 312 142 275 185 90 - 191 120 104
Nigeria July/June 12 962 105 859 1 500 - 1 100 1 100 - - 1 100 - -
Sahelian countries 9 850 124 1 484 1 437 176 1 239 1 072 167 - 1 288 187 151 48
Burkina Faso Nov./Oct. 2 474 114 180 160 37 110 100 10 - 94 47 41
Gambia Nov./Oct. 103 112 71 80 6 69 63 6 - 86 5 3 2
Mali Nov./Oct. 2 464 128 113 87 24 60 35 25 - 65 20 20 5
Mauritania Nov./Oct. 158 140 232 190 46 190 135 55 - 189 41 32 14
Niger Nov./Oct. 2 619 131 168 275 21 90 75 15 - 153 29 20
Senegal Nov./Oct. 886 96 655 574 29 670 620 50 - 699 22 21 28
Chad Nov./Oct. 1 146 155 65 72 13 50 44 6 - 3 23 13
Central Africa 1 019 101 436 487 6 415 408 7 3 397 38 16
Cameroon July/June 898 100 298 363 3 285 282 3 3 282 3 3
Congo July/June 21 100 96 89 2 100 97 3 - 85 34 12
Cent.Afr.Rep. Sept./Aug. 100 106 42 35 1 30 29 1 - 29 1 1
Sub-Total 46 599 111 8 145 9 045 1 957 7 981 5 752 2 229 762 6 236 1 989 1 671 593
TOTAL 59 948 110 10 889 12 481 3 977 10 929 7 266 3 663 1 128 6 786 3 769 3 215 693

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

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