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KEY POINTS
• Overview: A very small outbreak developed in Niger and continued in Sudan
• Current situation: Groups and small bands and swarms in Sudan; scattered locusts and a few groups of hoppers and adults along the coasts of Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Egypt and Yemen; isolated adults in northwest Somalia, Oman, and India. Groups and a swarm in Niger; isolated hoppers and adults in Mauritania; few adults in Algeria.
• Forecast: Groups and a few swarms from Sudan will migrate to the Red Sea coast for winter breeding. Locusts will increase and breed in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, and Eritrea, but more rain is needed in northwest Somalia. Drying vegetation may lead to a few swarms in Niger, while some groups in northeast Mali, southern Algeria, and northwest Mauritania. Some control operations will be required.