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Kenya: Relief in Fight Against Desert Locusts as Swarms Migrate
Nation, 14 July 2020
The government's war on desert locusts that continue to wreak havoc in Northern Kenya could soon be over. Read more »
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Eritrea: Training On Locust Invasion Control
Shabait, 14 July 2020
Training on pests control in general and that of locust invasion was organized to over 50 staff members of the Ministry of Agriculture and members of the Defense Forces in Mai-Mine… Read more »
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East Africa: UN Warns of New Wave of Desert Locusts Invading Horn of Africa
Nation, 8 July 2020
Countries in the Horn of Africa have been warned to remain on high alert following the increasing number of fresh desert locust invasions that continue to pose huge threat to food… Read more »
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Kenya: Worry As New Swarms of Desert Locusts Roam Turkana County
Nation, 29 June 2020
Huge swarms of desert locusts are hovering over the skies in Turkana County especially when it is windy after hopper bands overwhelmed control strategies and finally matured. Read more »
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East Africa: COVID-19, Locusts and Floods - East Africa's Triple Dilemma
Citizen, 10 May 2020
19, desert locusts or torrential rains and floods -- where should East Africa focus its attention among this "triple threat"? Read more »
Relief For Kenya as East Africa Battles Locust Menace
The swarms are expected to mature and lay eggs shortly after landing in Sudan due to the good breeding and survival conditions occasioned by the rains at Kordofan and Darfur. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization notes that the swarms expected to arrive in Sudan are more likely to stay rather than continue to Chad where ground monitoring is ongoing.
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The new swarm of locusts that has been seen in Turkana is reportedly is still in hopper state - young, immature and is not easy to spot, and is likely to spread into Eastern ... Read more »
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The new swarms expected to hatch in May 2020 will be descendants from the first generation that the Horn of Africa countries are battling to contain with little or no success. ... Read more »
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Billions of desert locusts have swept across east Africa, threatening the livelihoods of more than 20 million people. The United Nations has called the infestation - which has also ... Read more »
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Farmers have criticised the government for abandoning the war on the destructive insects and called for speedy intervention. They are worried that the invasion could lead to major ... Read more »
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Officials have said the hopper bands could form swarms close to 100 times larger than the wave that descended in the region from neighbouring Somalia and Ethiopia. A newly hatched ... Read more »
Farmers display dead locusts after spraying chemicals at a farm in Mwingi (file photo).
