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Urgent action needed to stop Locust invasion in eastern Africa

By Obi Anyadike, The New Humanitarian Senior editor, Africa NAIROBI- A donor conference in Rome on Monday will be asked to pledge $70 million to tackle a plague of desert locusts critically threatening rural livelihoods in a region where tens of millions of people already face extreme hunger. Swarms of the insects are sweeping across eastern Ethiopia,...