Food Crisis

Cameroon's government has declared that the country is facing a maize shortage in 2009 owing to corruption in its agriculture ministry. According to a government anti-corruption commission report, agriculture ministry officials have misappropriated around XAF2bn (US$4.3mn), which was meant to be used for raising maize production, through fake farmer groups. The corruption has meant that the country is on the verge of a food crisis. To head off the crisis, Cameroon's Deputy Prime Minister, Jean Nkuete, announced that the government has decided to increase maize output by 40,000 tonnes over the next three months, though it was unclear how this

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