Pink Locusts from North Africa Swarm Through Cairo
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Swarms of pink locusts swept through Cairo on Wednesday in scenes that recalled the biblical plague of Egypt.
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Locust plagues may predate biblical times, but today scientists still struggle to fully understand and control the swarms that can bring famine to thousands.
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Many of Egypt's needy flood Cairo to take advantage of the city's annual outpouring of charity.
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Pamela Bone witnesses Africa&#39;s latest humanitarian crisis, the flight of refugees from Sudan to Chad. On the bank of the wadi, which two weeks ago was full of fast-flowing water but is now only a few muddy
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DAKAR, Senegal  - 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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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 UN appeals for extra international aid to battle swarms of locusts that are spreading across west Africa.
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Locusts crawl over a giant screen at Alexander McQueen's show, tango dancers swirl over the catwalk at Kenzo, and it snows paper flakes at Chanel.
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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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ROME - Donor nations have pledged an additional $40m (about R264m) to help fight a devastating locust invasion in west Africa, but urgent action is now needed to tackle the crisis, the head of the UN&#39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday.
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The United Nations is flying six more aircraft to combat swarms of crop-devouring locusts in west Africa.
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L'Africa diventa il leit-motiv della sfilata
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Locusts crawl over a giant screen at  Alexander McQueen's show, tango dancers swirl over the catwalk  at Kenzo, and it snows paper flakes at Chanel.
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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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Spain's Canary Islands, which last week declared a state of alert as swarms of locusts arrived from western Africa, is under threat from a renewed cloud of the creatures, an AFP photographer on the spot said.
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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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Swarms of locusts descended on Cairo and around the fertile Nile Delta, but the authorities insisted the insects posed no serious threat to agriculture.