West African Locusts Likely to Remain
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The huge locust swarms that have ravaged swaths of western Africa are likely to plague the region for several years, a senior U.N. official said.
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JOHANNESBURG -- The global effort to eradicate polio will not meet its deadline to stop transmission of the virus by the end of the year, a World Health Organization official acknowledged yesterday, citing the spread of cases from northern Nigeria.
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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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Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, U.N. officials warned Friday.
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With swarms of locusts threatening crops in a number of African countries, a U.N. agency appealed for an additional &#36;70 million in assistance Thursday to prevent the upsurge from becoming a full-scale plague.
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African ministers meet in Senegal to plan a campaign against locusts ravaging West and Central Africa.
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CAIRO -- A swarm of pink-bodied locusts descended on Egypt&#39;s capital Wednesday, sending residents scurrying for cover as the swarms banged against windows and dropped onto cars.
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Australia's wheat farmers, fresh from battling the country's worst drought in a century, are now threatened by a plague of locusts which have already begun to hatch from a sprawling "nursery" in the country's outback.
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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.
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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Fears remain high in N'Djamena and abroad that  the retreat is temporary and the bloodletting may be far from over
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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.
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Smoke rises from burning tires in the corners of Oumar Sakho's fields Monday as a swarm of mating, yellow desert locusts munches through his water melons not far from Senegal's capital.
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Mauritania repeats its call for urgent aid to combat the largest locust plague to hit the region in over 20 years.
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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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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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LARAMIE, Wyo. - An extensive collection of grasshoppers, gathered over a 60-year career by a university professor, has found a sanctuary.  The 221 species that professor emeritus Robert Pfadt labored to collect are now cataloged and immortalized in their own boxed nests.