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Senegal: Wade Launches New Programme to Tackle Food Crisis
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Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (Dakar)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 29 April 2008
President Abdoulaye Wade has launched a new agricultural programme called GOANA to achieve self-sufficiency in his country, and to tackle the crisis triggered by rising global food prices.
Abdoulaye Wade has urged ministers, members of Parliament and senior civil servants to get involved in this programme for its success.
Senegal is confronted with inflating food prices, worsened by the rain deficit last year. Demonstrations were organised in Dakar last month by consumers associations to denounce the cost of life.
Wade's food programmes wants to get 2 million tones of maize, 2 million tones of cassava, 500.000 tones of rice, and 2 million of tones for other cereals such as sorghum and fonio.
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