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 ...

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 ...

What is the current situation with the locust invasion in Ukraine, how much damage has it caused to the crops, and whether farmers will be able to receive compensation, as well as the risks of the ...

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 ...

Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion. The insects are in two counties in northern Kenya and are now spreading to other regions including Meru, ...

Farmers across Central and South Asia are struggling to save their crops from the largest invasion of locusts in more than 20 years. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that ...

BISMARCK - A visit by a trade delegation from Tunisia has been canceled because of a locust invasion in that country, state Wheat Commission officials say. A team from the Tunisian Office of Cereals ...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Chemicals will be sprayed in sections of Northeastern Kenya to contain locusts, Kenyan government has said, adding that an aircraft will be used. Since December, residents of Mandera, ...

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

Alarming footage from Kushuhum, Ukraine, captured a terrifying locust invasion sweeping across the region on July 20. Thousands of insects have filled the skies, invaded homes, and destroyed crops ...