| Locust Plague Descends on Niger & Chad - Global News on the World Crisis Web (377 words) |
 | Millions of the finger-length insects have deluged the desert nations at the height of their crucial planting seasons, devouring seedlings and existing crops of millet and sorghum that are staples of the countries’ already meagre diets. |
| Chad’s food supplies are already exhausted owing to the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the troubled Darfur region of eastern neighbour Sudan. |
| Chad lacks all the major resources needed to combat the infestation, he added, as it is without vehicles, equipment, pesticides—and even a telecommunications system that can effectively track and monitor the advancing hordes. |
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