General Situation during May 2004
Forecast until mid-July 2004
The Desert Locust situation is very worrying
despite intensive control operations carried out in Northwest Africa during
May. So far in 2004, more hectares have been treated than in any year since
the last plague of 1987-89. Nevertheless, a significant redistribution
of populations is expected to occur in June as swarms that form in Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia and Libya move south and invade Mauritania, Mali, Niger,
Chad and perhaps western Sudan. Although the scale of the invasion is difficult
