Locusts Menace Quarter of West Africa Crops-Experts
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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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West Africa's worst locust plague for 15 years has encroached on one of the region's largest rice-growing areas, authorities in Mali said on Friday.
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Torn by war, famine and disease, the world&#39;s most tortured continent faces a new horror: the biggest swarms of locusts for 15 years. Steve Connor reports on a gathering menace ...
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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Locust swarms across West Africa have not damaged food crops as severely as initially feared, the UN says.
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Only a military-style operation with bases across West Africa can stop the worst locust invasion for 15 years, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said Tuesday as the insects swept into his capital.
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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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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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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours  which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of  thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of  the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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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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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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New South Wales, Australia, is bracing for what authorities predict will be the worst locust plague in 25 years.
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Locusts are commonly associated with plagues, food shortages, and death. But they are also inspiring what may be the next wave in lifesaving collision-avoidance systems.
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Polio has reappeared in Guinea and Mali five years after the crippling disease was eradicated in the two West African countries and health experts said on Tuesday there was still a very real threat of a major epidemic spreading across the African continent
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In an echo of the biblical plagues, millions of locusts swarmed into northern Egypt on Wednesday for the first time in 50 years, prompting authorities to order emergency pesticide spraying to protect the region's important agriculture industry.
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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A PLAGUE of locusts has swarmed into Israel across the border from Egypt, threatening to devastate fields of crops in the countryâs agricultural heartland.