In Burundi, fighting between government and rebel forces has escalated in the past couple months with almost 400,000 internally displaced people within the country. Both the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to be the focal point of a multi-country war that still has no end in sight. Eritrea and Ethiopia did finally reach an agreement to end hostilities between the two countries, but each country has hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons and crop production has yet to return to pre-war levels. Guinea is being drawn into the civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with guerillas attacking areas of the country that border those two nations. The situation in Somalia has actually improved significantly over the past year, but civil strife will still leave half a million people without enough food to eat.
Millions face food shortages in Africa .
The BBC, April 9, 2001. Africa Report No. 1, April 2001 . Food and Agricultural Organization, April 2001. Copyright 1998-2001 by Brian Carnell . All rights reserved.