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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Swarms of desert locusts have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern Kenya, posing a threat to food production and grazing land, its agriculture minister said ...

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, ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, in an update this week, confirmed the deployment of over 13,151 liters of specialized chemicals to combat a locust outbreak that has been ...