Locusts In West Africa - Breeding Continues, New Swarms Form
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization says widespread breeding of desert locusts continues in West Africa and new swarms are being formed.
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Jerusalem - Swarms of locusts threatening to devastate the Palestinian West Bank region of Jericho and already destroying grass and trees at luxury hotels in southern Israel have brought the two sides into unusual co-operation against a common flying foe.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says more funds are essential to combat locust swarms that are devastating crops in West Africa, and warns failure to act quickly, could result in a regional plague by the end of the year.
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Some 400,000 Mauritanians need food aid after last year's locust invasions, the UN says.
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Residents burned tires and trash in the streets Thursday trying to drive off swarms of locusts descending on the region in what a U.N. agency called the worst sub-Saharan invasion in more than a decade.
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Australia has started battling its biggest plague of locusts in decades as billions of the insects hatch along a wide front covering much of the country's central east region.
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Residents burned tires and children took to the streets with sticks in Senegal's capital on Wednesday to fight an invasion of locusts, as 12 West African nations agreed on a battle plan.
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A new study shows that climate uncertainty has influenced the evolution of cooperative behavoir in African starlings.
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Mauritania repeats its call for urgent aid to combat the largest locust plague to hit the region in over 20 years.
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afrol News, 17 September - The desert locust crisis in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali and Niger is &quot;expected to deteriorate over the next few weeks,&quot; and there was a serious risk that the Maghreb countries would be reinvaded by swarms from October onwards, FAO
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Experts warn that north-west African states could lose a quarter of this year's harvest to new swarms.
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Egypt has killed swarms of a type of locust that has infested parts of Africa and Cyprus this year, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Monday.
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The locust crisis that has devastated crops across West Africa may be even worse next year, experts warn.
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do well to turn to a UN site that counsels if you can&#39;t beat them eat them. swarms that have landed in Cyprus from Africa. &quot;Here are a few local recipes from locust-affected countries,&quot; a page on the FAO Web site says.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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The Sudanese government has readied 13 planes for fighting swarms of desert locusts, poised to enter the country from Egypt.
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ROME -- Swarms of locusts that have devastated crops and pastures across West Africa may hit countries as far away as Pakistan, a UN agency said yesterday as it announced an intensified control campaign. The desert locusts are moving into southwest Libya, southern Algeria, and the borders of Morocco, the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organization said. Other swarms were ...