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United Arab Emirates
The Fourth Sub-Regional Training Course on Desert Locust activities and operations was held in Al-Fujairah, United Arab Emirates in the period 24 May 03 June 2008. Four trainees from each of Bahrain, Iraq and Qatar, two from Kuwait and seven from UAE participated.Two Co-trainers from Egypt had also participated in the training.
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Yemen
Within the framework of the FAO support to the Member States of CRC, and the EMPRES Programme in the Central Region, and financed by IFAD, a Regional Training Course on the technique of the measurement of blood cholinesterase, and indicator for exposure to pesticides, was organized in Sana'a, Yemen in the period 14-18 June 2008. Two participants were invited from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopis, Sudan and Yemen. National trainers from the Locust Control Centre in Yemen were recruited to organize and conduct the training.
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Mali
The Secreatry of the Commission had participated in the Regional Workshop that was held in Bamako, Mali in the period 28 April - 02 May 2008, with the objective to prepare a plan for risk management.
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Egypt
FAO-CRC and DLIS had organized an inter-regional workshop for national locust unit directors and their information officers from 22 to 24 April 2008 in RNE, Cairo. Paticipants were from Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and DLCO-EA and one participant from CLCPRO.
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Sudan
A research study on the use of the IGR Teflubenzuron (Nomolt), as control agent against the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) alone and combined with Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) and pheromones; Phenyl Aceto Nitrile (PAN) and Nymph Pheromone Blend (NPB) has been approved. The reserch study will be undertaken in close collaboration with ICIPE Field Station at Port Sudan. First progress report received and approve in June 2008. The study is expeted to finish in two year period and that the researcher will obtain his Master of Degree from the results..
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Kenya
FAO-CRC is funding a Consultant who is documenting the social impact of locusts and extenuating circumstances to their control. The consultancy will aim to document the social circumstances of the people in locust affected areas and their understanding of locusts. The consultant will also obtain first hand accounts of how locusts have impacted the livelihoods of people in these areas, as well documenting other constraints to food security. A series of case documentary film case studies will be produced from the affected areas.
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Undetected breeding may be in progress in eastern Ethiopia
Although Desert Locust infestations were not seen during surveys recently carried out in southern Ethiopia, there is high probability that locusts may be present and breeding in the Ogaden in eastern Ethiopia. Efforts should be made to clarify the current situation in eastern Ethiopia, surveys should be undertaken in all accessible areas on a regular basis and carry out control operations as needed.
Elsewhere, the situation remains calm. Low numbers of adults are expected during June in southern Mauritania, northern Mali and Niger, eastern Chad, Darfur and Kordofan regions in Sudan, western Eritrea, the interior of Yemen, and along the Indo-Pakistan border. Small-scale breeding will occur in these areas once the seasonal rains commence.
Regular surveys are recommended in all of the above areas.
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Yemen
Mr. Osman Abdullah, DLCO-EA Research Officer was recruited by FAO in the period 19 June-18 July 2008 to undertake training programme in five countries in the region. He will deminostrate to the locust staff in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen:
a) How to prepare a spray formulation of Green Muscle, based on a TC (powder) formulation
b) How to handle both formulations (TC and the liquid formulation), with respect to human safety, storage, disposal
c) Prepare a Standard Operating Procedure for the activity in English and Arabic.
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Oman
The 26 Session and 29 Executive Committee Meeting of the Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Central Region will be held in Muscat, Oman during the period 26-30 July 2008.
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