Mauritania calls for urgent international help to cope with food crisis
Mauritania, Local, 9/3/2002

Mauritania called Sunday for an urgent international help to face up the serious food shortage in rural areas, caused by rain deficit.

"Rain deficit worsens the already precarious situation in the rural areas," minister of the interior, Lemrabott Sidi Mahmoud Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said.

Mauritania is in dire need of 37,000 tons of cereals, 14,000 tons of complementary products, as well as veterinary assistance and fodder to contain the growing mortality of the livestock, he said, adding that rain-dependent farming is at stake in most of the regions and that most dams are dry.

The rain season which usually starts in June has a significant delay this year.

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