Morocco’s Interior Ministry announced today that the country has heightened its preparedness levels following the detection ...

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.

In response to the spread of desert locusts in certain neighboring countries, particularly in the Sahel region and ...

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 ...

The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ... the Desert Locust in the Western Region (CLCPRO) on Tuesday. Groups of adults and small swarms arrived in central ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization issued an alert for Algeria, Libya and Tunisia against groups of desert locusts. The outbreak that began in December in the Sahel spread to North Africa during ...

Swarms begin when flightless juveniles aggregate ... Testing long-held hypotheses Through a combination of fieldwork during East Africa’s locust outbreak of 2020, laboratory studies, virtual ...

Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) are normally solitary insects, but in crowded conditions, they undergo physical and behavioral changes and become 'gregarious', clustering in swarms that can ...

The locusts are breeding and forming new swarms in the Horn of Africa, The Times of Israel reported, citing Locust Watch, part of the Food and Agriculture Organization at the United Nations.

Residents of Tenges ward in Baringo Central chase away a swarm of locusts which ... The study comes as record numbers of locusts devour crops in east Africa and threaten the food supply in Pakistan.