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Suite à la mise en œuvre, pendant quatre ans, d’un programme d'éradication, basé notamment sur des techniques nucléaires, la région des Niayes au Sénégal est quasiment débarrassée de la mouche tsé-tsé qui décimait jusqu’alors le bétail.
After a four-year eradication programme including nuclear techniques, the Niayes region of Senegal is now almost free of the tsetse fly, which used to decimate livestock.
Au moment où l'ESB décimait les troupeaux de bovins en Grande-Bretagne, sur les 40 inspecteurs - et je rappellerai que la Commission a déclaré ne pas disposer d'un nombre suffisant d'inspecteurs -, 34 effectuaient une longue mission en Grèce.
Yet at a time when BSE was wiping out the herds of the United Kingdom, 34 of the 40 inspectors - and be reminded of the Commission's claim that it is short of inspectors - spent a long time in Greece.
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