Plea for help to fight huge locust swarms
NZPA-Reuter Dar-es-Salaam East and central Africa’s anti-locust chief has appealed for help to fight a plague of the insects that he said is threatening Ethiopia with famine. John Malecela. chairman of the Desert Locust Control: Organisation for East and Central Africa, said that if; the huge swarms now in! Ethiopia and Somalia were not killed within two' months, they could cause a famine in Ethiopia and then create havoc in Kenya and Tanzania after being
carried there on prevailing winds. Mr Malecela. also the Tanzanian Agriculture Minister, said he had sent the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome; an urgent appeal for extra; help. This, he added, included 60 ground-to-air radio! (sets, 110 vehicles, and $1; million to hire extra help. The Minister, just back; J from Ethiopia, added: “I j want the international coin-! (munity to know that if they don’t stop the locusts today, they may have to feed thousands of people in the Horn of Africa tomorrow."
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