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UN agriculture agency helps protect against threat of locusts in Yemen

17 August 2022

Following heavy widespread rains in Yemen, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remains on high alert as the threat of desert locust emergence looms, the UN agency said on Wednesday.

Tens of thousands of refugees have crossed the border from Ethiopia to Sudan, fleeing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

News in Brief 5 February 2021

5 February 2021

News in Brief

UN agencies in plea for access to help stranded people in Ethiopia’s Tigray
COVID-19 ‘to contribute to two million additional cases’ of FGM over 10 years
In Somalia, risks of Desert Locust crop damage remain ‘high and alarming’

Locusts continue to threaten the livelihoods of people in Somalia.

News in Brief 16 December 2020

16 December 2020

News in Brief

Desert Locust ‘re-invasion’ threatens millions across Horn of Africa
Independent expert decries shrinking space for China’s human rights lawyers
Bangladesh cartoonist must be released on medical grounds, urge rights experts

A health worker in a hospital in Sana'a in Yemen, prepares therapeutic milk is prepared for children suffering from malnutrition.

News in Brief 9 April 2020

9 April 2020

News in Brief

COVID-19: Yemen ceasefire announced in bid to contain coronavirus
UN Deputy chief launches blueprint to protect poorer countries from coronavirus
The fight against desert locust swarms goes on in East Africa despite COVID-19 measures

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UN food agency warns North Africa of locust threat, seeks funding help to control swarms

23 October 2012

Desert locust swarms are set to invade North Africa in the coming weeks, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, as it highlighted ongoing efforts to raise almost $6 million still needed to cover regional control costs for the rest of the year.

UN to battle locusts and their appetites in Central Asia and Caucasus

19 May 2011

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced a scheme to assist 10 countries across Central Asia and the Caucasus to protect up to 25 million hectares of their cultivated farmland from locusts.

Red Sea locust infestation may increase dramatically, UN agency reports

3 October 2007

There is a high risk that locust infestations will increase dramatically on both sides of the Red Sea in the coming months as the crop-devouring insects have bred several months earlier than normal this year because of good rainfall since August, the United Nations warned today in its latest update.

‘Extremely serious’ locust infestation in Yemen worsens in August, UN reports

4 September 2007

The locust infestation in Yemen, already termed “threatening and extremely serious” last month, worsened during August as immature swarms of the crop-devouring insects formed in the interior and moved into the central highlands, with the possibility that they may now invade neighbouring countries, the United Nations warned in its latest update.

UN agencies join forces to help Yemen battle locust outbreaks

23 July 2007

Two United Nations agencies are facilitating the donation of pesticides from Mauritania to Yemen in a bid to help the country deal with its worst locust outbreak in nearly 15 years.

Locusts are nearly invisible amid damaged foliage

UN agency warns of possible locust infestation in India and Pakistan

5 July 2007

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that swarms of desert locusts from East Africa are expected to cross the Indian Ocean and could reach India and Pakistan within days, creating a potentially dangerous situation for a region already suffering from the impact of last week’s deadly storms.

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