Arabic News Weekly Edition for Mauritania, 8/23/2004
Weekly Edition, Mauritania - Week of August 23, 2004
- Morocco sends aid to Mauritania to fight locusts
Morocco sent Wednesday to Mauritania 50,000 litres of pesticide, 10 individual sprayers and three airplanes to help the west African country fight locust swarms that have been wrecking havoc on the vegetation and crops for several weeks. Mauritania-Morocco, Local, 8/27/2004 - Morocco, Mauritania have similar views on security and development issues, Official
Visiting Moroccan minister-delegate for foreign affairs and cooperation, Taieb Fassi Fihri, told the press, in Nouakchott Wednesday, Morocco and Mauritania have similar views on security and development issues. Mauritania-Morocco, Politics, 8/27/2004 - UN seeks urgent aid to stop African locust crisis from becoming full-scale plague
Although the global community has responded to a United Nations appeal to help west and northwest African countries fight the current locust crisis, the situation remains dramatic and more international aid is urgently needed to prevent a full-scale plague, the UN Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) warned today. Mauritania, Local, 8/26/2004