The World - News from May 16, 1986
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The rains that ended the African drought have spawned the continent’s worst plague of locusts in half a century, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported. Four species of locusts are threatening croplands. The agency’s director general, Edouard Saoma, has called for financial assistance.
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