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Africa Renewal

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, recurring droughts and locust invasions were already threatening food security. With COVID-19, the socio-economic impacts being felt across Ethiopia are wide-ranging and serious, with the potential to become severe, the r

coronavirus

UNDP: In Ethiopia, pandemic struck amid slowing growth, locust invasion, and disease outbreaks

UNDP

By UNDP

Desert Locust Swarms

coronavirus

Relentless locusts return in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic

East Africa hit by a second wave of locusts leaving millions of people food insecure

By Micka?l Sallent

Swarm of Desert Locusts in Isiolo County in Kenya

Health

FAO continues to fight desert locust upsurge in East Africa and Yemen despite COVID-19 constraints

By FAO

A swarm of Desert Locusts in Samburu County, Kenya

Peace and Security

UN fast tracks $10 million loan to help scale up FAO action to fight Desert Locusts

By FAO

A swarm of desert locusts fill the sky near a farm.

Climate Change

More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’

UN News

Locusts can devastate crops and pastures.

Climate Change

East Africa locusts threaten food security across subregion, alerts UN agriculture agency

UN News