Locusts invade Mauritania capital
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A vast swarm of locusts invades the Mauritanian capital, laying waste to the city's greenery.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Passengers overpowered a suspected armed hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane on Thursday when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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Unidentified gunmen opened fire on  the house of Mauritania's national security chief early on  Sunday, police said, in an attack less than two months after  the West African country said it had foiled an attempted coup.
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Swarms of locusts invade southern Italy, including the town where Mel Gibson shot The Passion of The Christ.
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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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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 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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A state of alert is ordered as swarms of locusts from Africa arrive in Spain's Canary Islands.
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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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L'attacco Ã¨ avvenuto a 250 chilomentri dalla capitale del PaeseCinque persone sono rimaste ferite. Gli aggressori sono fuggiti                                          Commando armato contro turisti Quattro morti in Mauritania
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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 pink locusts swept through  Cairo on Wednesday in scenes that recalled the biblical plague  of Egypt.
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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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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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Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the house of Mauritania&#39;s national security chief early Sunday, police in the coup-prone West African country said.
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The opposition wins the first stage of Mauritania's first poll since a coup ended 20 years of authoritarian rule.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.