Pictures of the Decade : children run as locusts spread in capital Dakar

Senegalese children run as locusts spread in capital Dakar. Vast swarms containing billions of locusts periodically devastate massive areas of crops in Africa, inflicting economic hardship on the affected countries. The last big African swarm in 2004 cost $400 million simply to eradicate the pests, a tab that did not include money lost to destroyed crops. Taken on September 1, 2004 by Pierre Holz