General Situation during April 2015
Forecast until mid-June 2015
The Desert Locust situation continued to improve during April. Very little rain fell throughout the recession area. Only low numbers of solitarious adults remained in a few places of the winter breeding areas along both sides of the Red Sea in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. A few adults moved into the interior of northern Sudan. No control operations were conducted in April. Scattered adults were present in southeast Iran and isolated adults were seen in the central Sahara in Algeria. During the forecast period, small-scale breeding may occur in parts of the spring breeding areas in Northwest Africa and the interior of Saudi Arabia. Locust numbers will remain low and no signifi cant developments are expected.