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Somalia Declares 🚩 Emergency Over Locust Swarms 😲
« Reply #2070 on: February 04, 2020, 03:55:46 pm »
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Somalia Declares 🚩 Emergency Over Locust Swarms 😲
Source: BBC News

Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa. The country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation, posed "a major threat to Somalia's fragile food security situation".

There are fears that the situation may not be brought under control before the harvest begins in April. The UN says the swarms are the largest in Somalia and Ethiopia in 25 years. Meanwhile, neighbouring Kenya has not seen a locust threat as severe in 70 years, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

However, Somalia is the first country in the region to declare an emergency over the infestation. ◾Drones tested to combat desert locusts. Somalia's unstable security situation means that planes cannot be used to spray insecticide from the air.

Locusts can travel up to 150km (93 miles) in a day. Each adult insect can eat its own weight in food daily. In December, a locust swarm forced a passenger plane off course in Ethiopia. Insects smashed into the engines, windshield and nose, but the aircraft was able to land safely in the capital, Addis Ababa...SEE Video.

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- The UN says the situation in the Horn of Africa is the worst in 25 years.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142427214

EAST AFRICA
Billions of locusts threaten food security in East Africa | DW News
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Desert locusts are eating their way across large parts of east Africa in a swarm of enormous proportions. It is the worst loscust outbreak some countries there have seen in 70 years. Researchers say they pose an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are the worst affected, and Uganda is bracing for an invasion too. Authorities have advised citizens to stock up on food as the insects approach the border with Kenya.

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