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West Africa's locust invasion

A report on West Africa's worst locust invasion for a decade. Huge areas of West Africa have been hit by locust swarms this year in the worst locust invasion for 10 years. Mauritania is one of the countries most affected and the UN estimates that half its crops may have been destroyed.

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