Dakar — The plague of locusts sweeping south across the Sahara desert is now
causing serious crop damage in Mauritania, Mali and Niger and has spread for
the first time to Chad, agricultural experts and government officials said
on Monday.
Over the weekend, swarms of locusts invaded eastern Mali and started
devouring crops, an agricultural official in the central town of Mopti
said.
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