51. After flooding hit Dadaab last week, UNHCR moved food stocks from there to Garissa. 52. Along with homes and family members, villagers have lost food stocks and water wells. 53. Among losers were semiconductor-related issues, including NEC and Fujitsu, some distribution companies and food stocks. 54. Although the fall harvest allowed the government to increase what were starvation-level rations, the World Food Program expects domestic food stocks to be exhausted by April. 55. Because of drought, FAO said food stocks in southern Africa are being rapidly depleted. 56. But the blue-chip index reversed course midway through morning trading, lifted by bargain hunters buying banking and food stocks. 57. Earlier this month, it said its food stocks would run out. 58. Eighty-year-old Tatjana Paranovski, frail and increasingly immobile, worries about the food stocks in her freezer. 59. Economic activity in Freetown has ground to a virtual halt, and food stocks are low. 60. Experts now fear that there will be widespread food shortages because emergency food stocks have not been maintained. |