N°: 017/2013

22 January 2013 [Praia - Cape Verde]

The ECOWAS Commission has presented a cheque of US$190,000 to the Government of Cape Verde in support of victims of the unprecedented flood disaster which caused severe losses of property and displacement of people on the country’s Boa Vista Island in 2012.

A simulated tsunami will strike the western and eastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the North East Atlantic shoreline on 27 and 28 November, to test the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System for the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas. The exercise, named NEAMWave12, is organized under the umbrella of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT

• Maize production was sharply reduced in 2011

• Prices of rice, the main food staple, have been increasing steadily since 2007

ICC-CPI-20111013-PR731

On 10 October 2011, the government of the Republic of Cape Verde deposited its instrument of ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the United Nations. The Statute will enter into force for Cape Verde on 1 January 2012, bringing the total number of States Parties to the Rome Statute to 119.

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT

-Maize production contracted by 5 percent in 2010 compared to 2009, but was still well above average - Prices of rice, the main food staple, have been increasing steadily since 2007

- Maize production contracted by 5 percent in 2010 compared to 2009, but was still well above average.

- Prices of rice, the main food staple, have been increasing steadily since 2007

An above average crop was gathered in 2010

Harvesting of maize - the only cereal grown in the country - was completed in December. A CILSS Crop Assessment Mission, which visited the country last October, estimated the 2010 production at 7 383 tonnes mostly produced in Santiago Island (57 percent) and Fogo

- Maize production contracted by 8 percent in 2009, compared to 2008.

- Prices of rice, the main food staple, have remained at a stable level since the beginning of the year

Insufficient rainfall contributed to a decline in maize production in 2009

Planting of the 2010 maize crop - the only cereal grown in the country - and pulses, is scheduled to finish at the end of August. Maize production is concentrated in the two islands of Santiago Island (55 percent) and Fogo Island (28 percent).

The 2009 maize crop, harvested between