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NOUAKCHOTT (MAURITANIA): Some wore buckets on their heads, others swung sticks, and those who could, sheltered indoors, praying for an end to the locust invasion which on Monday swept through Mauritania's capital, Nouakchott. The swarm devastated crops and the city's few parks, and left residents feeling besieged and impotent in the face of west Africa's worst locust infestation for over a decade. This was Mauritania's third swarm in as many months, a plague which the Government said had destroyed up to half the country's crops and 60 per cent of its pastures. Nouakchott's main soccer pitch and the President, Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya's palace gardens were reported to have been eaten by the first locust invasion in August. Locusts sweep across Africa every year, but this year has been especially bad .
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