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ETHIOPIA 1968. Locust swarm

July 1968 (exact date unknown). Ethiopia. More than 40 countries, from West Africa to North India, are now threatened with the biggest desert locust outbreak since 1959, a record plague year.

01/01/1968

Country Africa

UNFAO Source FAO Photo Library

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Background Information

International efforts to control the desert locust are being coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO), which is providing specialized assistance, financing the Desert Locust Information Service and aiding national and regional control with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funds. In East Africa, cooperative control work is being carried out by Ethiopia, Somalia, Territory of the Afar and Issa Peoples (formerly French Somaliland), Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda through the Desert Locust Control Organization, East Africa (DLCO/EA). Sudan, also With UN aid in co-operation with DLCO/EA, is attempting to save its crops from threatening locust swarms.