WORLD IN BRIEF : AFRICA : Continent Warned on Loss of Resources
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Edouard Saouma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, warned Africa that it is on the path to total destruction of its natural resources. Saouma told delegates from 51 nations in Marrakesh, Morocco, that the continent faces “an extremely serious threat of accelerated, continent-wide environmental decline, with the inevitable outcome in the long term of total depletion.” The agency plans to outline a series of remedial steps for which it has budgeted $527 million in 1990-91.
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