HIGHLIGHTS

The global cereal supply and demand situation has further tightened, with a downward revision of the 2006 world cereal production forecast and a projected increase in cereal utilization in 2006/07. At current forecast levels, the utilization would exceed production by 3.3 percent in 2006/07. World cereal stocks are forecast to decline for the third consecutive year, with those of wheat falling to their lowest level since 1981.

Cereal export prices have increased sharply in recent months, mainly in response to tightening world supplies and by

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In Brief

Period covered by this Interim Final Report: 10 March to 31 December 2005.

History of this Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF)-funded operation:

- CHF 70,000 was allocated from the Federation's DREF on 10 March 2005 to respond to the needs of this operation.

- This operation was expected to be completed by 31 December 2005.

Premier Edna Molewa yesterday visited the Durban Roodepoort Deep Mine earthquake scene near Stilfontein in the North West Province. The earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale shook the Klerksdorp area, trapping miners underground who have since been evacuated.

Premier Molewa also visited the injured in hospital to give support and has assured that Government would help where it could, within its available resources.

The earthquake that has caused damage to a few residential flats in the area has left one person dead and another missing.

The Klerksdorp Municipality reported

by Jan Hennop

STILFONTEIN, South Africa, March 10 (AFP) - Rescuers on Thursday recovered the body of a miner from a deep gold pit after hauling to safety 36 others who were trapped underground after a quake hit South Africa's mining heartland.

The teams pressed on with a search for one miner still missing since the quake hit around noon on Wednesday, causing tunnels in the shafts to collapse at the DRDGold mine in Stilfontein, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Johannesburg.

"The body has been recovered and

Premier Edna Molewa will today at 15:00 visit the Durban Roodepoort Deep Mine where an earthquake struck near Stilfontein in the North West Province. An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale shook the Klerksdorp area, trapping miners underground and has caused damage to a few residential flats in the area.
Molewa has sent her condolences to the family of the miner who died yesterday. Another is still unaccounted for. Rescue workers and mine workers who volunteered to assist in the rescue effort evacuated other trapped miners from underground.