U.S. Accuses U.N. of Dragging Feet Over Locusts
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The United States accused the U.N. agriculture body Friday of mismanaging the locust crisis afflicting vast swathes of West Africa.
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An agricultural region in eastern Mauritania faces the loss of its entire crop to swarms of locusts unless action is taken immediately, a regional government official has warned.
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West Africa may lose up to a quarter of its grain harvest this year if the worst locust infestation for 15 years is not brought under control, regional agriculture experts warned.
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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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The UN Security Council must threaten to use its &quot;stick&quot; as well as offer &quot;carrots&quot; to speed up settlement of the 21-year civil
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The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.
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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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Swarms of locusts that have devastated crops and pastures across West Africa may hit countries as far away as Pakistan, a U.N. agency said Wednesday as it announced an intensified control campaign.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday expressed strong disapproval of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan&#39;s description of the US-led war in Iraq as illegal, saying the comment was &quot;not a very useful statement to make at this point.
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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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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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Shortages of crop-dusting planes and pesticide are continuing to hamper locust control operations in West Africa, where new swarms of young insects are forming in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal and parts of Niger, the UN Food and Agriculture
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United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan has become the target of escalating attacks in the United States over suspected corruption in the body&#39;s now-defunct oil-for-food humanitarian programme for Iraq.
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ROME  - A UN food agency made another urgent appeal Friday for money to buy pesticides and crop-dusting aircraft to combat locusts devouring crops in northwest Africa.
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United Nations officials fear that Secretary General Kofi Annan may have lost the confidence of the organization&#39;s most powerful constituent, the United States.
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U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned against an  all-out military offensive to capture the rebel-held Iraqi city  of Falluja, which U.S. forces urged civilians to flee as they  launched fresh air and artillery strikes on Friday.
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New swarms of crop-devouring locusts are on the move towards north-western Africa, the UN says.