FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 04/01 - GUINEA (9 April)
Seasonably dry conditions prevail. Reflecting a good harvest in 2000 and a record crop in 1999, the overall food supply situation is satisfactory and markets are generally well supplied, except in the south-east where rebel incursions from Sierra Leone have severely affected agriculture and marketing activities. Humanitarian agencies have suspended their operations in the "Parrot’s Beak" area, a strip of Guinean territory that juts into Sierra Leone near the Liberian border, where the military do not allow access. Consequently, tens of thousands of refugees are inaccessible, notably in the camp of Kolomba, which hosts about 60 000 refugees.
More than 400 000 refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone remain in the country. UNHCR has established new refugee camps north of Kissigoudou, to relocate about 60 000 refugees from Guékédou area and the Parrot's Beak. Kountaya, the first new camp, has reached its capacity of 26 000 refugees. A second camp has been opened at Bomeah, in the Albadaria region and two others are under construction in Telikoro and Mandoukoro. A transit camp has been established in Conakry to facilitate repatriation of refugees to Sierra Leone by boat.
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