Food crisis could loom after Africa floods: Red Cross

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

GENEVA (AFP) — The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that a food crisis could be looming across east and west Africa due to the massive damage wrought on crops by ongoing flooding.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies highlighted the situation in Ghana, Sudan and Uganda, which are among the largest nations out of the 22 struck by floods that have affected an estimated 1.5 million people.

"Massive damage to crops and the widespread destruction of grain stores by the floods have left many communities facing an uncertain future," said Kiflemariam Amdemariam, East Africa food security coordinator at the Federation.

"With harvests either already happening, or just a few months away, a second emergency is looming as food shortages could...