25 on the locust swarms devastating agriculture in Kenya,AP’s Nairobi team came through with another truly striking package on the worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years ...

Hundreds of billions of locusts are swarming through parts of East Africa and South Asia in the worst infestation for a quarter of a century, threatening crops and livelihoods. A man attempts to ...

A second invasion by desert locusts has hit East Africa in just a few months, as younger and more aggressive swarms hatch and spread across a region already battling hunger and coronavirus ...

Since December, billions of desert locusts have ravaged crops, decimated pasture and threatened the livelihoods of more than 20 million people in East Africa. Follow the latest developments here.

The worst desert locust outbreak in a generation has been decimating crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa. Since January, Kenya Ethiopia, and Somalia have been battling to contain the ...

practical schemes for the preventive control of the three species of African locusts were formulated 1; but the outbreak of the War in 1939 made the postponement of schemes, which were of ...

Desert locust swarms are ravaging crops, trees, and pastureland, destroying food and vegetation and jeopardizing food security across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia. The World Bank is ...

Weather data and state-of the-art computational models have enabled researchers at the University of Cambridge in England to ...

(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plague of locusts considered “extremely alarming” is headed toward Africa and the Middle East but is likely to bypass Israel. The locusts are breeding and forming new ...

Uganda’s agriculture minister Frank Tumwebaze has joined eight other African ministers to devise a strategy for fighting desert locusts. The other ministers at the ongoing 69th session of the ...