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SOMMAIRE ET IMPLICATIONS La campagne agricole 2004-05 a été assez difficile dans la moitié nord du pays, mais les résultats prévisionnels sont globalement excédentaires. La campagne agricole a été caractérisée par les faits majeurs suivants : une installation tardive au cours du mois…

What's at stake when locusts invade? What do a shepherd in Northwest Africa, a plant protection expert in the Sahel and a Ministry of Agriculture official in either region have in common? Their lives at the moment are dominated by…

Desert Locust swarms are moving out of West Africa. Several waves of immature swarms invaded three of the Cape Verde islands last week. Other swarms have recently reached southwest Libya near Ghat and the Algerian border, northwest Mauritania and…

Despite control operations more swarms will form in October Rome, 5 October 2004 -- More Desert Locust swarms will form during October and start to move towards Northwest Africa, perhaps on a larger scale than occurred in February, according to the…

New reports indicated that immature swarms of Desert Locust are forming in northern Burkina Faso. New swarms continue to form in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal, Mali and Niger. Many of the swarms are highly mobile and are flying, especially…

I. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A conference was held in Dakar, Senegal on 28 and 29 September 2004 with the participation of major bilateral donor countries to West Africa, the UN system and international NGO’s, to discuss the humanitarian…

SOMMAIRE ET IMPLICATIONS L'activité pluviométrique a suivi son rythme moyen du mois d'août, mais avec une bonne répartition temporelle. Cette pluviométrie a entraîné un développement végétatif satisfaisant dans l'ensemble. Cependant, sur le plan quantitatif la pluviométrie est dans l'ensemble déficitaire, entraînant…

Locusts have devastated 4,000 hectares of crops in Mali in West Africa. The swarms first appeared in the Goundam region of the country at the end of July but local people's attempts to contain them failed without sufficient outside help.…

DAKAR, SENEGAL, 23 September 2004 - The World Bank Wednesday in Dakar signed a series of agreements providing credits totaling US$12.5 million dollars in support of emergency programs to combat desert locusts in seven countries of the Sahel Region…