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,...
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January 10, 2020January 10, 2020Global News & Politics, News, Slideshow, Somali News & Politics
Kenya warns locust swarm is spreading, threatening food security
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Swarms of desert locusts have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern Kenya, posing a threat to food production and grazing land, its agriculture minister said on Friday. The locusts began crossing into Kenya around Dec. 28, initially destroying pastures in semi-arid counties mainly occupied by herder communities. They have...