Senegal Draws Up Locust Battle Plan for West Africa
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Only a military-style operation with bases across West Africa can stop the worst locust invasion for 15 years destroying vital food supplies, Senegal&#39;s President Abdoulaye Wade said Tuesday.
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Israeli ag officials are coping with huge swarms of locusts sweeping in from North Africa, the first such invasion since 1959. Residents report clouds of the insects munching palm trees bare, but some citizens are eating the bugs.
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African leaders meet this weekend to debate a grand plan for a continental government, but they face pleas for urgent action now to halt conflicts in Darfur and Somalia and tackle enduring poverty.
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The United States accused the UN agriculture body on Friday of mismanaging the locust crisis afflicting vast swathes of West Africa.
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Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2004 shows a locust landed in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. Massive swarms of locusts on Wednesday swept through Cairo after threatening the country&#39;s northern fertile regions.
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ROME Sept. 17, 2004 - Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, UN officials warned Friday.
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DAKAR, Senegal -- Residents burned tires and children took to the streets with sticks in Senegal's capital yesterday to fight an invasion of locusts, as 12 West African nations agreed on a battle plan.
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U.S. marines have trained an elite force in the West African country of Niger to root out and kill al Qaeda-linked militants Washington fears may be roaming ungoverned swathes of the Sahara desert.
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Some wore buckets on their heads, others swung sticks, and those who could sheltered indoors, praying for an end to the locust invasion which yesterday swept through Mauritania&#39;s capital, Nouakchott.
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President Jacques Chirac visits Senegal on Wednesday for the first time in a decade, hoping to boost ties with a former West African colony at a time when the United States is raising its military profile in ...
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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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Current champions Egypt face Cameroon in Group C while Sudan kick off their campaign against Zambia.
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Crop-devouring locusts have caused major damage to cereals in Mauritania but other West and Central African states have suffered much less than feared from the worst infestation in over a decade, the U.N. said on Thursday.
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A state of alert is ordered as swarms of locusts from Africa arrive in Spain's Canary Islands.
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President Jacques Chirac visits Senegal on Wednesday for the first time in a decade, hoping to boost ties with a former West African colony at a time when the United States is raising its military profile in the region.
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The desert locust infestation that  descended on West and Central Africa this year is likely to  return in 2005 and officials will have to be better prepared to  avoid major damage to crops, experts said on Monday.
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DAKAR, Senegal  - Mangoes stand piled high in red,   orange and green stacks, a traditional sight on the roadsides   of Senegal during the harvest season.