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Gabonese President for FAO summit in Rome Saturday

The President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, will leave Libreville on Saturday for Rome, Italy, where he will participate in the world summit on food security, official sources said here Friday.

Invited by the United Nations Organisation for Food and Agriculture (FAO), the meeting aims at finding urgent solutions to the world food crisis.

According to the estimates of the FAO, the number of victims of hunger could increase by 100 million in 2009 and up to more than one billion.

Libreville - 13/11/2009

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