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11/04/2004:

"Locusts devastate Mauritania crops"

Dakar - Crop-devouring locusts have caused major damage to cereals in Mauritania but other West and Central African states have suffered much less than feared from the worst infestation in over a decade, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The huge swarms which descended on the semi-desert Sahel region south of the Sahara earlier this year had raised widespread worries of food shortages in the impoverished states.

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