General Situation during May 2006 - Forecast until mid-July 2006
The Desert Locust situation remained calm during May. The only significant locust activity was in Algerian Sahara where locust numbers increased slightly because of small-scale breeding in parts of the centre and southeast. Ground control teams treated nearly 4,000 ha. Elsewhere in the spring breeding areas in Northwest Africa, isolated adults and hoppers were present at one place along the Moroccan/Algerian border. Dry conditions prevailed in nearly all the other recession countries