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09/28/2004:

"Locusts push Mauritania to the brink"

West Africa is in the grip of its worst plague of locusts for generations, with massive swarms infesting thousands of kilometres of land from the Atlantic coast to Chad, eating everything in sight.

Full Article : bbc.co.uk