FAO head to visit famine-hit Horn of Africa this month Tuesday, 03 January 2012 14:30

ROME:The new head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jose Graziano da Silva, will visit the drought and famine-hit Horn of Africa this month, he said Tuesday.

"Africa remains the priority of my mandate. I will travel to the African Union summit at the end of January, as well as the Horn of Africa," he told the first press conference of his mandate.(AFP)