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

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’ 
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Locusts continue to threaten the livelihoods of people in Somalia.
© FAO/Haji Dirir

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

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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Desert locusts eating vegetation.
FAO/G.Diana

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.
Moroccan locust females laying eggs

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.
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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.
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‘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.
Desert locust

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.
A locust swarm

UN agency issues new locust warning for northeast Africa

28 March 2007
In a new offensive against locusts, the United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today called on countries in northeast Africa to intensify surveys and control operations against the crop-devouring insects, particularly on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea and Sudan and in northwest Somalia.