Agricultural Crisis Looms in CAR

The United Nations says farmers in the Central African Republic need seeds and tools before the next planting season if they are to stave off a nationwide food crisis.  Two senior UN officials were in Bangui this week:  John Ging, operations director of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and Dominique Burgeon, emergencies director for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Speaking at a news conference, Ging told reporters the...

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