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GENEVA, Dec 7 (AFP) - Rwanda is threatened by a critical lack of food and the population has nothing left to eat while it awaits the next harvest, an International Committee of the Red Cross report published here Wednesday said.
The ICRC alone is still feeding a million people living in camps, mainly in the southwest of the country, the report's author agronomist Francois Grunewald said.
The farming of Rwanda's traditional crops had been seriously affected by the civil war, he said, with tea and coffee harvests, important to the country's economy, particularly badly hit.
The ICRC recently distributed bean and corn seeds to around 200,000 families with access to planting areas.
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