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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
Credit ©FAO/G. Tortoli 
UNFAO Source FAO Photo Library
File size 820.93 KB 
Unique ID UF12GDY 
FAO. Editorial use only. Photo credit must be given. 
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.