FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report, August 1997 - Tables Table 2: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1996/97 or 1997 (in thousand tons)

FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report, August 1997 - Tables

Table 2: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1996/97 or 1997 (in thousand tons)

Sub-Region/ Country	Marketing year	1996 Cereal production		1995/96 or 1996 imports			Position for 1996/97 or 1997
				Total imports	As % of average of previous 5 years	Food aid	Cereal import require ments 2/	Anticipated commercial imports	Food aid requirements		Cereal import position
									Food aid requirements		Commercial imports already made or contracted	Food aid
		Total	As % of average of previous 5 years						Total	of which exceptional	Commercial imports already made or contracted	Pledges 3/	of which received so far	Uncov. Food aid require ments
		*Countries still in 1996/97 or 1997 marketing year*
Eastern Africa		21 730	122	2 437	81	911	2 390	1 684	706	40	596	659	513	430
Burundi	Jan./Dec.	247	91	56	101	3	20	3	17	16	-	7	-	10
Comoros	Jan./Dec.	14	100	44	102	1	44	34	10	-	2	4	1	6
Djibouti	Jan./Dec.	-	-	57	60	12	80	59	21	5	3	14	8	7
Eritrea	Jan./Dec.	132	80	172	88	62	289	120	169	-	-	29	9	140
Ethiopia 4/	Jan./Dec.	11 128	143	377	52	377	-	-	-	-	-	219	172
Kenya	Oct./Sept.	2 782	93	710	78	36	1 200	932	268	-	469	93	60	175
Rwanda	Jan./Dec.	182	83	357	170	349	61	30	31	-	-	155	142
Seychelles	Jan./Dec.	-	-	13	91	-	13	13	-	-	-	-	-	-
Somalia	Sept./Aug.	288	110	165	87	12	256	170	86	19	48	22	14	64
Sudan	Nov./Oct.	5 340	125	439	83	40	385	311	74	-	60	46	38	28
Uganda	Jan./Dec.	1 617	88	47	113	20	42	12	30	-	14	71	70
Southern Africa		2	100	240	127	1	172	172	-	-	49	-	-	-
Mauritius	Jan./Dec.	2	100	240	127	1	172	172	-	-	49	-	-	-
Western Africa		34 365	107	5 587	123	516	5 014	4 316	698	-	1 460	615	428	138
*Coastal countries*		25 *485*	110	3 *625*	*127*	*369*	3 *215*	2 *821*	*394*	-	1 *111*	*389*	*274*	47
Benin	Jan./Dec.	661	108	126	106	9	115	99	16		-	22	12
Côte d'Ivoire	Jan./Dec.	1 232	119	587	114	47	505	465	40	-	31	29	23	11
Ghana	Jan./Dec.	1 698	114	365	115	40	387	310	77	-	37	55	37	22
Guinea	Jan./Dec.	668	100	355	121	9	375	355	20		25	5	3	15
Liberia	Jan./Dec.	64	142	177	96	143	235	80	155	-	15	178	128
Nigeria	Jan./Dec.	20 387	110	1 615	140	-	1 250	1 250	-	-	936	-	-	-
Sierra Leone	Jan./Dec.	288	93	260	141	117	260	179	81	-	6	92	69
Togo	Jan./Dec.	487	100	141	136	4	88	83	5	-	62	7	3
*Sahelian countries*		8 *880*	100	1 *962*	117	*147*	1 *799*	1 *495*	*304*	-	*349*	*226*	*154*	91
Burkina Faso	Nov./Oct.	2 444	101	153	95	26	123	105	18	-	12	27	15
Cape Verde	Nov./Oct.	1	13	73	92	46	90	25	65	-	-	61	26	4
Chad	Nov./Oct.	813	91	80	124	15	116	66	50	-	-	41	31	9
Gambia	Nov./Oct.	96	102	98	119	4	110	97	13	-	-	8	5	5
Guinea Bissau	Nov./Oct.	134	95	60	99	6	60	54	6	-	17	3	3	3
Mali	Nov./Oct.	2 020	99	115	116	5	100	65	35	-	-	16	16	19
Mauritania	Nov./Oct.	99	70	242	102	27	300	225	75	-	134	37	32	38
Niger	Nov./Oct.	2 307	103	316	164	6	250	230	20	-	-	24	21
Senegal	Nov./Oct.	966	104	827	119	11	650	628	22	-	186	10	6	12
Central Africa		1 648	104	395	121	14	376	303	73	-	76	17	10	56
Cent.Afr.Rep.	Jan./Dec.	105	109	34	105	-	39	38	1	-	-	1	1
Equat.Guinea	Jan./Dec.	-	-	17	149	1	10	8	2	-	-	2	-	0
Gabon	Jan./Dec.	25	100	74	116	-	76	76	-	-	7	-	-	-
Sao Tome	Jan./Dec.	-	-	10	86	4	11	6	5	-	-	4	3	1
Zaire	Jan./Dec.	1 518	104	260	128	10	240	175	65	-	69	10	6	55
Sub-total		57 745	112	8 659	453	1 442	7 952	6 475	1 477	40	2 180	1 291	951	624
		*Countries which have entered their 1997/98 marketing year*
Eastern Africa		3 517	96	70	51	22	135	135	-	-	114	21	8	0
Tanzania	June/May	3 517	96	70	51	22	135	135	-	-	114	21	8
Southern Africa		24 415	137	4 749	85	891	2 490	1 958	532	154	2 286	673	401	21
Angola	April/March	508	149	483	143	228	442	202	240	129	168	235	191	5
Botswana	April/March	82	234	238	114	7	234	234	-	-	152	1	1
Lesotho	April/March	260	198	250	106	30	144	94	50	-	106	34	34	16
Madagascar	April/March	1 909	105	151	119	28	141	115	26	-	123	39	19
Malawi	April/March	1 902	131	230	66	222	95	45	50	-	60	108	21
Mozambique	April/March	1 329	197	435	74	302	300	140	160	25	54	229	124
Namibia	May/April	87	109	148	126	11	109	109	-	-	60	1	-
South Africa	May/April	13 513	132	2 116	86	-	872	872	-	-	1 239	-	-	-
Swaziland	May/April	139	154	77	105	6	38	32	6	-	52	6	6
Zambia	May/April	1 559	139	312	80	58	50	50	-	-	120	11	5
Zimbabwe	April/March	3 127	167	310	46	-	65	65	-	-	153	8	-
Central Africa		1 287	127	378	99	13	383	381	2	-	208	27	14	0
Cameroon	July/June	1 260	128	255	89	4	260	260	-	-	99	1	1	-
Congo	July/June	27	100	123	128	9	123	121	2	-	110	26	13
Sub-total		29 219	129	5 197	86	926	3 008	2 474	534	154	2 608	720	424	21
TOTAL		86 964	117	13 856	98	2 368	10 960	8 949	2 011	194	4 788	2 011	1 374	646

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 cases where governments count some food aid received for market sale against commercial import requirements.
4/ Includes refugee needs.
Note : Totals computed from unrounded data.