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BEIJING, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. Congress report Thursday on Edward Snowden, the "whistleblower" about U.S. intelligence aggression against private phone calls, has further dimmed his hope of returning home without being punished.
The report by a Republican-led U.S. House Representative committee said Snowden, a former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who has fled to Russia, is "a serial exaggerator and fabricator" instead of a whistle blower.
The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence condemned Snowden for stealing and leaking 1.5 million classified documents from secure National Security Agency networks.
"The vast majority of the documents he stole have nothing to do with programs impacting individual interests," said the report whose purpose is apparently asking President Barack Obama not to pardon him.
This report just came one day ahead of the release of a film by Oliver Stone based on the true story of Snowden entitled after his name. A number of civil rights groups, artists and writers have also appealed to President Obama to pardon Snowden.
"After years of investigation, the committee still can't point to any remotely credible evidence that Snowden's disclosures caused harm," said Ben Wizner, Snowden's attorney, who said the report is aimed at "discrediting a genuine American hero".
Snowden's revelations about the NSA's collection of millions of Americans' phone records has set off a fierce debate in the United States about violation of private rights by the government in the name of fighting terrorism.
Now, with presidential elections set for Nov. 8, both presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have expressed strong opposition of pardoning Snowden, saying he must be punished for harming the country's national security. Both are playing hardline cards on national security issue.
The Obama administration has not agreed to give Snowden a presidential pardon, and urged him to return to the United States and face trial immediately.
With his mandate running out in months, Obama would also face judicial obstacles if he intended to pardon Snowden, as according to U.S. law, the president can only pardon a person after he is convicted of a crime by a court.
If Snowden returns to the U.S. to face trial over accusations of treason and espionage, he could be sentenced to 30 years in jail.
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NAIROBI, April 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) started using mobile phone technology in reporting desert locust's invasion in the Eastern Africa, a senior UN official said on Friday.
FAO Sub-regional Crop Production Officer for Eastern Africa Region Mathew Abang said that community administrators and selected youths have been identified to help in reporting army locust's deserts through mobile phones in the sub region to help hasten control the insects from causing massive destruction to farmers.
"We have resorted to the use of mobile phones following our experience with the management of African army worms that that caused massive damage due to disconnect in communication between farmers and scientists," Abang said this during a stakeholders forum on Fall Armyworms in Nairobi.
He said the approach is set to help harness data by triggering early warning response since it is not easy for scientists to monitor the movements of the insects without the help of local communities.
Abang called on scientists to deploy the approach in the fight against Fall Armyworm that is currently ravaging crops, especially maize in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa countries.
"Empowering communities through capacity building is an approach that should be scaled up in Africa in the fight against the pest as we wait for the scientific solution," Abang said.
The Director of Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) Stephen Njoka told the meeting that one of the solution to fighting Fall Armyworm and other pests in the region relies in the development of insect resistant crop varieties.
"It is time to equip farmers with modern technology and improved resistant seeds to save them from making losses every year," Njoka added.
He said that whereas his organization controls pests using aircraft, most small scale farmers cannot be helped by the approach as they own small farms.
According to scientists, fall armyworm is so far the most damaging insect pest in Africa in recent times.
Food security in Southern, Central and Eastern Africa is under threat by the invasive moth especially in regions where maize is the staple food. It has so far destroyed 287,000 hectares of maize in the region.
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