FAO Urges Four African Countries to Brace for Desert Locust Swarms
- Publisher:
- United Nations Radio
- Publication Date:
- 23 October 2012
- Tags:
- North Africa, Food and Agriculture
Four countries in northwest Africa are being urged to prepare for the likely arrival of swarms of Desert Locusts, the most devastating of the species.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has alerted Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Morocco about the insects which appear to be headed their way from the Sahel region of West Africa in the coming weeks.
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