East Africa Faces Locust Swarms, UN Agency Alerts for the Risk of Food Insecurity Across the Subregion

20 January 2020

Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are dealing with desert locust swarms of "unprecedented size and destructive potential" that could spill over into more countries in East Africa, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on Monday.

Destroying hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, the outbreak is further impacting the region's food insecurity. The UN agency urged a collective campaign to deal with the crisis, alerting for the risk of the swarms spilling over into more countries in East Africa, "if efforts to deal with the voracious pest are not scaled up across the region".

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