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The hotel, restaurant, and institutional (HRI) sector in South Africa is gradually beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, but challenges remain due to frequent power outages, known as load shedding, and rampant food price inflation.

South Africa's steady growth in poultry production is expected to continue in 2024 as an increasingly vertically integrated industry capitalizes on lower feed prices driven by strong maize and soy production.

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal area harvested for marketing year (MY) 2023/24 is forecast to remain the same as the previous year at 1.23 million hectares (MHA) based on good farm gate prices, governments’ input subsidies, and farmers’ debt cancellation by the Malian and Senegalese governments.

Ethiopia’s agriculture imports reached $1.8 billion in 2015. Future imports are expected to increase as the country’s economy and population continue to grow.

A World Bank report indicates Senegalese economic growth will continue to accelerate in 2015 and 2016 due to the rebound in the agricultural sector coupled with the end of the Ebola epidemic...

The corn crop across South Africa is in fairly good condition. Favorable forecasts for follow-up rains over the next three weeks could further improve the crop.

This report is an annual update of Senegal’s food and feed regulations and governmental regulatory bodies and enforcement mechanisms.

This report is a reissuance of the 2015 FAIRS export certificate report with no additional information.

In mid-January, Ethiopia cut the size of its earlier-announced milling wheat tender of 720,000 metric tons to 400,000 metric tons.

The Government of Ethiopia and international development partners are gearing up to address drought conditions in the southern and eastern parts of the country.

In December 2016, the U.S. Forest Service conducted a two-day workshop to build emergency response capacity in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa.