African Leaders Clamor For Food Security

A summit on food security across Africa has heard calls for the continent to feed itself, rather than relying on aid or imports. <br />The current African Union chairman - Senegalese President Macky Sall - told the meeting in Dakar that Africa had huge potential that was not exploited. <br />The head of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, two-thirds of the world's uncultivated arable land is in Africa adding that Africa can and must feed itself. <br />Tens of millions of people in East Africa and the Sahel region face hunger because of drought, conflict and a rise in the cost of food and fuel.