| The death of Muammar Gaddafi continues to reverberate across Africa – this time in the form of desert locusts.The
Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations warned on
Tuesday that croplands in Niger and Mali were at imminent risk from
locust swarms moving south from Libya and Algeria. The revolution in
Libya played a major role in allowing the pests to breed, it said.Desert
locusts have the capacity to destroy vast areas of croplands. During a
plague, a swarm can stretch for several hundred square kilometres
comprising billions of locusts, each capable of eating its own weight in
food a day. |
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