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By helping to reduce the size of the swarms, this aid is expected to have a positive impact on affected communities throughout the Horn of Africa. The current outbreak of desert ... Read more »
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Zimbabwe has announced that it will now adopt a coupon system following growing concern that vulnerable groups are unable to access subsidised maize meal. A failing economy has ... Read more »
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization says that nymph (baby) desert locusts maturing in Somalia's rebel-held backcountry, where aerial spraying is next to unrealizable, will ... Read more »
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The move is aimed at enabling Tanzanians to harvest wild animals for selling and consumption, Tourism Minister Hamisi Kigwangalla has said. The ministry is in the process of ... Read more »
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