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Close to five million people in East Africa could be at risk of famine and hunger as the ‘worst locust invasion in a generation’ continues to destroy crops, ...

Locust plague prompts famine fear. A Nouakchott resident sent us these pictures of her rubber tree - before and after the locusts arrived. Agricultural experts have warned that a plague of locusts ...

RABI or winter season major crops like wheat, barley and gram stand harvested and stored. Kharif, or summer food ...

According to Cressman, the desert locust crisis traces back to May 2018, when Cyclone Mekunu passed over a vast, unpopulated desert on the southern Arabian Peninsula known as the Empty Quarter ...

Afghanistan is facing a locust timebomb after billions of eggs were laid by the grasshoppers in the country’s breadbasket, raising fears that a plague of insects will devastate food supplies ...

To assess the risk of locust outbreaks in Africa and the Middle East and the connection to climate change, scientists analyzed incidents of desert locust outbreaks from 1985 to 2020 using the Food ...

Locust outbreaks, a visual often used in entertainment to signify an upcoming apocalypse, could worsen as global temperatures continue to climb, according to new research.

Ethiopia's Tigray region faces a devastating famine, ... In addition to the conflict — in which around 600,000 people died — locust infestations and an ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa ...

A combination of armed conflict and the most severe drought in at least four decades is tipping the Horn of Africa region into a disaster. With crops failing and livestock dying, the number of ...