The desert locust invasion in Somalia has significantly affected the country’s food security, with successive generations of swarms destroying vital crops and pastures. Compounding the situation were ...

A resident of Tenges in Baringo Central tackles locusts last year. At least 20 counties have been invaded by the desert locusts. [File, Standard] Kenya is under pressure to avert a full-scale desert ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Kenya may have ducked a major food security crisis this year following the invasion of the ...

Swarms of locusts in Ethiopia have damaged 200,000 hectares (half a million acres) of cropland and driven around a million people to require emergency food aid, the United Nations said Monday. The ...

On Feb. 24, drivers on a Western Sahara Desert highway were ambushed by an unexpected obstacle: a massive swarm of locusts engulfing the road. Video captured on the highway shows cars forging through ...

An invasion of desert locusts has already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of crops and grazed land across Somalia and ...

Locust outbreaks, which cause considerable crop losses, affect a quarter of the world’s population today. In a recent paper, scientists predict the situation will worsen with climate change, and they ...