Appeal for food aid
"NZPA-Reuter Rome; The. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has called for- an emergency meeting for. September 19 to discuss more food aid for 25 African nations, • a spokes--1 man has said. ; T h i r t y-one countries, mainly aid donors, have been invited to dispuss .the need of the countries to im-
port about 5.7 million tonnes of food in 1980-81, more than double the average of recent years, the spokesman added.. ■ The-problem countries are: Angola, ' Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea.- Guinea-Bis-sau, Kenya, Lesotho, Ma-
ilawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Gambia Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. - Their problems have been caused by poor harvests, poor conditions of standing crops, or a large -increase in the number of refugees or people returning home from another country, .. T
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Press, 6 September 1980, Page 9
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