Mauritania contains locust outbreak, UN says
2009-10-27
Emergency operations by Mauritania's National Locust Centre "successfully contained a massive outbreak of desert locusts, which were threatening to spread north to other countries in West Africa," the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation announced on Monday (October 26th). Some 17 teams from the centre are still conducting survey and control operations in the west of the country.
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