Drought in Upper Guinea

Following a mission to Upper Guinea on 14-21 March, the Service National d'Action Humanitaire (SENAH) informed the Sectoral Group on Food Security on 4 April of a drought in the Northern part of the prefecture of Siguiri affecting 117,000 persons according to information gathered by the local authorities. WFP has been asked to send an evaluation team from its sub-office in Kankan to assess the situation. This region of Guinea was affected by a flash flood last September.

WFP Pipeline update

Global cereal output in 2001 is provisionally estimated at 1 880 million tonnes (including rice in milled terms), slightly up from the forecast in December and 1.2 percent up on the previous year. However, with global cereal utilization in 2001/02 still forecast to be well above this level at 1 935 million tonnes, the global cereal stocks will be drawn down significantly.

While overall food supply prospects for 2002 are more favourable than in the past two years, millions of people in developing countries still need emergency food assistance due

Latest information indicates a slightly larger global cereal output in 2001, of 1 870 million tonnes (including rice in milled terms). However, even at this level, production would still be less than the anticipated utilization requirements in 2001/02, leading to a significant draw-down of cereal stocks.

While Afghanistan currently faces a grave food supply situation, food emergencies persist in many other countries (see box on page 6).

World cereal trade in 2001/02 is forecast at 233 million tonnes, unchanged from the previous season's

(du 24 au 30 novembre 2001)

UNION DU FLEUVE MANO: Un SOS en faveur des groupes vulnérables tandis que l'instabilité continue

Alors que les agences de l'ONU ont lancé un appel de fonds d'un montant de 170 millions de dollars en faveur des populations vulnérables en Afrique de l'Ouest - principalement en Sierra Leone, en Guinée et au Liberia - les événements sur le terrain viennent

SIERRA LEONE-LIBERIA: Diamond troubles

Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) this week denied allegations in The Washington Post that it sold millions of dollars' worth of illicit diamonds to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

Eldred Collins, head of the RUF Party (RUFP) Public Relations Unit, said that the RUF had never operated as or

HIGHLIGHTS
The initial estimate of funds required to cover the unmet needs of flood victims in Upper Guinea totals some US$1.8 million (based on the joint GOG/UN Agencies/UNDAC assessment mission report of 29 October).

FAO has received US$500,000 through the CAP 2001 for its emergency agricultural inputs project in favor of IDPs and host populations.

OCHA Guinea sent the final CAP 2002 field draft to HQ in Geneva. The local launch of the West Africa CAP 2002 will take place in Guinea on 27 November.

Somalia: The situation has deteriorated dramatically as a result of the failure of the Gu rains and har-vest. The situation is exacerbated by the chronic food insecurity of much of the