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The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) is an organization established by an International Convention signed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1962. Member countries, which are represented by the Ministries of Agriculture/Livestock, are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, covering a land surface area of about 6,157,725 sq.kms, with an estimated population of 180 million.
Initially, the Organization was mandated to promote control operations and forecast techniques against upsurges and plagues of Desert Locust in the Eastern Africa region. Later the mandate was extended to include better management of infestations of other migratory pests, particularly the African Armyworm, the grain-eating Quelea bird and the Tsetse fly that transmits the deadly human sleeping sickness (Trypanosomiasis) or nagana to livestock.
Prior to the establishment of DLCO-EA, there existed the Desert Locust Survey (DLS) and Control, which was a Department of East African Common Services Organization.
Eritrea
Somalia
Federal Republic of Somalia is a sovereign state with its territory located in the Horn of Africa
Tanzania
Tanzania officially the United Republic of Tanzania is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Ethiopia
South Sudan
South Sudan ,officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa...
Uganda
Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa whose diverse landscape encompasses the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains ...
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The Desert Locust
The Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål) is a species of short–horned grasshopper that belongs to the family Acrididae, order Orthoptera. Read More >>
The African armyworm
The African armyworm, Spodoptera exempta (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is the larva or caterpillar of a night- ying moth which causes... Read More >>
The Quelea Bird
The most notorious bird pest of small-grain cereal crops in the DLCO-EA region and the species that is of the greatest concern... Read More >>
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The Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) marks diamond (60th) anniversary THE DLCO-EA, 1962-2022!
DLCO-EA in Figures
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DLCO-EA Staffs
Directors
Mr. Mwesigwa Moses Rwheru
Dr. Stephen Njoka
Mr. Gaspar Athman
2011 - 2016
Mr. Peter O. Odiyo
2001 - 2011
Dr A.M.H. Karar
1992 - 1999
Prof. H.Y. Kayumbo
1988 - 1991
Dr D.M. Wako
1979 - 1989
Mr Adefris Bellihu
1968 - 1978
Mr. R.J.V. Joce
1962 - 1968
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Our Partners
From its inception in 1962 till the beginning of the new Millennium, DLCO-EA has received technical, financial and other forms of support from a wide variety of friends and partners in development, among them
