MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Regional Updates Due to the Ramadan Eid El Fitr holidays ending, there is no grain news or information from the MENA region this week. 

SOUTHERN/EASTERN/WESTERN AFRICA  Ghana’s government faces serious criticism from local farm organizations after releasing 14 GMO products – six types of soybeans and eight types of maize. The farm groups say that non-GMO high-yielding crops could be developed without resorting to GMO. They add that GMO seeds have “serious negative implications for health, the economy and the environment”. Sudan has received a donation shipment of 14,600 MT of Ukrainian wheat flour to be distributed by the World Food Pro...