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News in Brief 17 August 2022
- UN human rights chief visits Bangladesh
- Floods in Yemen
- Yemen: Controlling locusts
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East African countries better prepared, but desert locust threat ‘not over’
Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods, but funding is needed to sustain operations against new incursions, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
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World in ‘much better place’ to fight desert locust scourge – UN’s FAO
Compared to last year, everything is in place to successfully fight the devastating desert locust swarms that have been threatening food supplies and livelihoods across the Horn of Africa region, according to the senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official, in charge of forecasting the pest’s movements.
Charlotta Lomas spoke to Keith Cressman, who said that $80 million was still needed to control the scourge, through the coming months.
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Desert Locust ‘re-invasion’ threatens millions across Horn of Africa
New Desert Locust swarms are forming in the Horn of Africa, threatening agricultural livelihoods and the food security of millions of people, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Wednesday.
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Fears of Desert Locust resurgence in Horn of Africa
The Desert Locust crisis which struck the greater Horn of Africa region earlier this year threatening food supplies for millions, could re-escalate as recent strong winds carried mature swarmlets from southern Somalia into eastern and northeastern Kenya, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday.
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News in Brief 28 July 2020
- Jailed DPRK women forced home, 'face grevious abuse'
- COVID likely not seasonal, WHO warns
- Desert Locust upsurge tamed in Kenya
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News in Brief 11 May 2020
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Three UN peacekeepers killed in improvised explosive attack in Mali
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Myanmar extends agreement with UN on access to Rohingya’s embattled home state
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Gains made against desert locusts in East Africa and Yemen but food security crisis remains
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Fight against desert locust swarms goes on in East Africa despite coronavirus crisis measures
Sustained efforts to contain East Africa’s worst invasion of desert locusts in decades are forging ahead, despite limits on the flow of personnel and equipment stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the UN food agency said Friday.
UN Mexico/Alexis Aubin
WHO concerned over rapid escalation in COVID-19 spread as caseload approaches one million
Deaths from COVID-19 have more than doubled in the past week and will soon reach 50,000 worldwide, while the global caseload is heading towards one million, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists on Wednesday.
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News in Brief 17 March 2020
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Millions of people in crises will need UN humanitarian aid in midst of COVID-19 pandemic
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New locust swarms add to South Sudan food hardship
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UN chief condemns attacks on peacekeepers in Central African Republic, urges probe