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FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report No.3, December 1998

Table 2: Cereal Imports and Food Aid Requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1997/98 or 1998 (in thousand tonnes)

Sub-Region/ Country	Marketing year	1997 Cereal production 1/		1996/97 or 1997 imports			Position for 1997/98 or 1998
		Total	As % of average of previous 5 years	Total imports	As % of average of previous 5 years	Food aid	Cereal import require-ment 2/	Antici -pated commer -cial imports	Food aid requirements		Commer-cial imports already made or contracted	Food aid
		Total	As % of average of previous 5 years	Total imports	As % of average of previous 5 years	Food aid	Cereal import require-ment 2/	Antici -pated commer -cial imports	Total	of which: excep- tional		Pledges 3/	of which received so far	Uncov. food aid require-ments
Countries still in 1997/98 or 1998 marketing year
Eastern Africa		10 583	112	1 011	74	551	1 527	582	945	-	250	1 079	869	51
Burundi	Jan./Dec.	297	113	37	67	-	42	6	36	-	2	8	1	28
Comoros	Jan./Dec.	14	100	42	99	3	46	36	10	-	4	6	4	4
Djibouti	Jan./Dec.	-	-	78	82	12	66	56	10	-	14	10	9
Eritrea	Jan./Dec.	130	105	289	147	54	284	172	112	-	83	98	89	14
Ethiopia 4/	Jan./Dec.	8 384	121	239	33	202	751	186	565	-	46	719	567
Rwanda	Jan./Dec.	218	115	236	112	232	198	44	154	-	27	185	147
Seychelles	Jan./Dec.	-	-	12	92	-	13	13	-	-	1	-	-	-
Uganda	Jan./Dec.	1 540	81	78	190	49	127	69	58	-	72	53	52	5
Southern Africa		3	150	280	148	-	248	248	-	-	75	-	-	-
Mauritius	Jan./Dec.	3	150	280	148	-	248	248	-	-	75	-	-	-
Western Africa		26 195	110	3 779	131	413	3 474	3 165	309	-	1 600	277	223	60
*Coastal countries*		26 *195*	110	3 *779*	*131*	*413*	3 *474*	*3 165*	*309*	-	*1 600*	*277*	*223*	60
Benin	Jan./Dec.	904	142	144	106	32	120	111	9	-	17	12	12
Côte d'Ivoire	Jan./Dec.	1 262	118	515	100	52	620	580	40	-	156	49	21
Ghana	Jan./Dec.	1 715	110	471	148	110	440	400	40	-	209	52	50
Guinea	Jan./Dec.	676	114	375	127	3	410	400	10	-	43	7	-	3
Liberia	Jan./Dec.	112	260	216	111	130	240	110	130	-	8	85	85	45
Nigeria	Jan./Dec.	20 522	107	1 711	148	1	1 300	1 300	-	-	1 077	-	-	-
Sierra Leone	Jan./Dec.	309	101	238	130	79	260	180	80	-	3	68	55	12
Togo	Jan./Dec.	695	133	109	105	7	84	84	-	-	87	3	-	-
Central Africa		2 913	109	766	108	33	751	691	60	-	406	15	4	49
Cameroon	Jan./Dec.	1 135	109	250	88	2	260	253	7	-	136	-	-	7
Cent.Afr.Rep.	Jan./Dec.	132	129	39	105	-	39	38	1	-	10	2	2
Congo, Dem. Rep of	Jan./Dec.	1 619	109	252	124	7	255	230	25	-	150	4	-	21
Congo, Rep.of	Jan./Dec.	2	7	131	137	22	95	72	23	-	77	4	2	19
Equat.Guinea	Jan./Dec.	-	-	9	79	-	9	7	2	-	3	1	1	1
Gabon	Jan./Dec.	25	100	74	116	-	82	82	-	-	28	-	-	-
Sao Tome	Jan./Dec.	-	-	11	99	3	11	9	2	-	2	4	-
Sub-total		39 694	110	5 836	462	997	6 000	4 686	1 314	-	2 331	1 370	1 095	160
Countries which have entered their 1998/99 marketing year
Eastern Africa		10 525	92	2 672	468	132	3 033	2 730	303	-	2 928	289	202	s
Kenya	Oct./Sept.	3 034	100	1 847	202	75	1 346	1 246	100	-	1 533	111	93
Somalia	Aug./July	282	105	217	114	5	330	220	110	-	270	13	10	97
Sudan	Nov./Oct.	4 096	93	541	102	46	532	509	23	-	509	74	58
Tanzania	June/May	3 113	82	68	50	6	825	755	70	-	617	92	41
Southern Africa		21 601	114	3 821	69	424	3 395	2 771	624	9	4 007	532	373	252
Angola	April/March	431	120	449	133	154	531	329	202	-	351	260	160
Botswana	April/March	28	68	153	74	1	257	257	-	-	244	-	-	-
Lesotho	April/March	160	94	129	54	32	263	168	95	-	127	8	8	87
Madagascar	April/March	1 865	101	86	68	17	168	125	43	-	157	39	38	4
Malawi	April/March	1 650	110	174	51	99	347	197	150	-	111	7	3	143
Mozambique	April/March	1 468	176	264	45	109	214	102	112	9	152	207	163
Namibia	May/April	171	231	60	51	-	83	83	-	-	93	-	-
South Africa	May/April	11 895	110	2 018	82	-	1 072	1 072	-	-	2 041	-	-	-
Swaziland	May/April	87	97	77	104	6	47	47	-	-	62	-	-	-
Zambia	May/April	1 121	94	122	35	4	388	366	22	-	386	5	2	17
Zimbabwe	April/March	2 725	131	290	43	1	25	25	-	-	283	7	-
Western Africa		7 715	87	2 055	123	180	2 257	1 878	379	-	2 278	195	144	218
*Sahelian countries*		7 *715*	87	2 *055*	123	*180*	2 *257*	*1 878*	*379*	-	*2 278*	*195*	*144*	*218*
Burkina Faso	Nov./Oct.	1 983	82	133	83	16	273	193	80	-	186	24	20	56
Cape Verde	Nov./Oct.	5	71	112	143	61	95	30	65	-	36	49	46	16
Chad	Nov./Oct.	949	107	89	139	26	73	63	10	-	64	35	22
Gambia	Nov./Oct.	105	114	105	124	7	110	94	16	-	75	3	3	13
Guinea-Bissau	Nov./Oct.	140	99	86	140	5	66	63	3	-	71	1	1	2
Mali	Nov./Oct.	1 954	98	122	122	25	70	65	5	-	84	14	10
Mauritania	Nov./Oct.	125	87	406	171	24	340	285	55	-	312	30	15	25
Niger	Nov./Oct.	1 695	76	260	139	13	450	390	60	-	582	31	26	29
Senegal	Nov./Oct.	759	82	744	107	3	780	695	85	-	869	7	2	78
Sub-total		39 841	101	8 548	95	736	8 685	7 379	1 306	9	9 213	1 015	718	568
TOTAL		79 535	106	14 384	102	1 733	14 685	12 065	2 620	9	11 544	2 385	1 813	728

Note : Totals computed from unrounded data.
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.