FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/01 - GUINEA (6 November)
Rains were abundant countrywide in late August and remained adequate in September and October. Cumulative rainfall is generally above normal. Floods which occurred in August and September in Haute Guinée affected some 220 000 people and destroyed over 20 000 hectares of farm land. Harvest prospects are generally good, except in Nandiana prefecture following reduced precipitation in late September/early October.
The overall food supply situation is satisfactory and markets are generally well supplied, except in the flooded areas and in the southeast where recurrent rebel incursions from Sierra Leone have severely affected agriculture and marketing activities. The overall nutritional situation is reported to be "quite stable" in Upper Guinea in the new camps of Boreah, Kountaya and Telikoro in the Prefectures of Albadaria and Sembakounya where refugees have been relocated from the Parrot's Beak.
The outbreak of violence in neighbouring Lofa County in Liberia has forced many Liberians to become refugees in Guinean border areas near Macenta and N'Zerekore. In addition, there are about 180 000 IDPs in the country, but with the improved security many IDPs have begun to move back to their homes.