Thank you. They travel in forms of billions devouring everything in their pocket and invasion of the desert is plaguing country thats across the east on fertile. Large areas now theres a danger of them returning. Also coming up is there anything a smartphone come to do with a new device. Allows users to take their temperature and the fear out of a pandemic is a softer function. While many parts of the world struggle to contain the corona virus we take a look at life on for the 1st infections came to life in january. Business im paid ferguson for joining me they are tiny but devastating over the past few months forms of Desert Locusts have invaded parts of east africa arriving as nice they feast on anybody in their path destroying livelihoods and threatening Food Supplies having already been wiped out in large areas there is a danger of them returning later in the year in kenya farmers are ready dealing with a 2nd generation of the pests. They have swarmed through the land for months eating everything in their path its a plague of locusts on the scale kenya hasnt experienced in 70 years this is already the 2nd generation of Desert Locusts to overrun the country this year and with each generation breeding there are millions more for the insects of racist hardly anything for other animals. A nightmare for farmers to harvest to feed their families. These are matters that are very low cost. In the entire from if you grow from us grown or in order to good around you find that almost all that too it was all been destroyed in this ship so this is a loss that we are countering every moment. Kenya has tried pesticides to fight the highly mobile swarm and with some success but the swarms move on heading north to countries like ethiopia somalia and south sudan there is great concern that they will return later in the year the fight against the locusts is also a race against time. For more lets bring in Keith Cressman hes the senior locust forecasting officer at the uns food and Agriculture Organization keith good to have you with us if the situation across africa right now well this situation is the worst situation weve seen in the last quarter of a century in canyon which you were mentioning in your program its the worst situation in 70 years so we were very concerned of course on the upcoming forecast and predictions of what could happen this summer to make it even worse. There just give me an insight as to whats causing these forms of locusts why are they arriving right now well this is a response to whether in fact very very good weather conditions that just didnt start now but it started about 2 years ago in 2018 when there were 2 cycles in the indian ocean that brought very heavy rains and then this was exacerbated by flooding in yemen after that and then another cycle last year at the end of the year in somalia ok lets return to kenya and how has it been dealing with this 2nd generation of these past. Well theyve had now 2 generations of reading so this has required extensive efforts to control them mainly by aircraft so this is aircraft spring bio pesticides and chemical pesticides against the swarms again so we listening in the northern part of the country now these operations are coming to an end most of the swarms have been detected and treated but those of course that are missing detection or treatment they will move northward into ethiopia now of course this is all happening right in the middle of a pandemic how much more difficult is a to handle this during a house crisis well of course its already extremely difficult to manage Desert Locusts without a Health Crisis is incredibly challenging but now of course we have the coded 19 travel restrictions we have delays in terms of shipments of very important equipment has to side the necessary experts are having a difficult time of course im getting into the i suspected countries. So its very very complicated but you know they are managing still to undertake the very important control operation and finally way do you see this all going in the next few months well you know now were at the beginning of the summer breeding season so its another period of the year where the locus will increase they wont increase in kenya per se they will be increasing further north in somalia in sudan in ethiopia so much depends on the success of that breeding during the summer as well as those control operations and the summer rains so in the worst Case Scenarios that control our creations are not very good the rains are excellent for the locusts then there could be a really invasion of kenya by the end of the year. Keith cressman thanks so much parasites thank you. Having a fever is a common symptom of covert 19 but not everyone has a thermometer at home and the cost of them has shot up during the pandemic a new smartphone made in uganda could help the device which costs about 100. 00 comes with an infrared sensor allowing users to take their own temperature producers say its the 1st of its kind in africa. A built in infrared sensor to measure body temperature. 36 degrees celsius everything ok no fever this smartphone is produced in uganda the 1st of its kind in africa for the Marketing Department did she find those 7 phone is an easy sell one of the keyboards you put on the. But how do we help the one or how do we help the government uganda or africa our blood. Work when could you shouldnt go to the whats the thank you. Its not exactly new similar smartphones have been produced by chinas one way and see me mobile the producers of the g 5 those 7 in uganda are also chinese owned but the little ball unit only costs 100 american dollars. Thats much less than the temperature guns that use Similar Technology those are worth at least 250. 00 in uganda and you obviously cant phone with them the way you can with a g 5 o 7. Shares in apple have been soaring helping to catapult c. E. O. Tim cook into an exclusive club hes now believed to be a billionaire has headed off since 2011 under his leadership the firm became the 1st u. S. Company to be valued at one trillion dollars and its now even closing in on the 2 trillion mark his wealth comes from his salary apple as well its stock options. Now to some of the other business stories making news. German Ecommerce Companies alonzo has reported a big increase in Business Hours pun demick restrictions lead to more online spending so on those operating profits doubled in the 1st half of 2020 odd millions of new customers. Almost 750000 jobs have been lost in britain since the start of the covert 19 pun to make in march official data released on tuesday showed that new hires plummeted while the number of people claiming jobless benefits doubled. Car sales in china grew strongly last month the automakers Association Says almost 8 per cent more vehicles were sold than a year earlier thats especially good news for german money for tourists who rely heavily on china as their most important market. Now back in january the attention of the world was on the chinese city of han where a mystery virus was killing thousands of people and a sleeping lockdown was bringing life to a standstill 7 months later its the other way round the code 19 pun demick is causing chaos on suffering around the world while the place where it all started edges ever closer to normalcy. Hard to believe perhaps but this is. The city where the pandemic that changed the world started is dancing again and elec tronic Music Festival like this was on imaginable there earlier in 2020 when the city was completely locked down to contain the Novel Coronavirus outbreak but with new infections almost unheard of life is getting back to normal queues for breakfast the motorway is jammed with cars and busy streets its a world away from the dystopian scenes months ago. No one can be sure how bad things really were here this day its official narrative is heavily disputed but their version of history is written there are already covert 1000 exhibitions or hazmat suits signed by emergency workers are on display. While the city is certainly alive again business has taken a hit Street Vendors have not yet seen the same level of activity as before. Things arent where i would like them to be but they are improving business restarted i was selling just 200 to 401 a day but now its above 1000. Other sectors such as real estate have also been slow to return to preplan demick levels. Because of all the Market Performance is still relatively conservative in the 1st half of the year we returned to some projects that we were already working on before the outbreak. In the 2nd half of the year controlling the pandemic still needs to be considered and so the business volume has been reduced. The people of this city went through a trauma together but the scenes here today suggest a better time could be coming for the rest of the world however far away that might seem right now. Authorities in singapore have begun question ivory worth an estimated 13000000. 00 to highlight the countrys fight against the illegal wildlife trade its the Biggest Initiative of its kind in recent years. In an event stream down a line workers were seen as trolley loads of tufts into a skip where they were then destroyed by an industrial rock crusher but destruction it may take several days with the fragments then due to be burnt. Up so we have time for 4 more detect at our website thats called a clash business you can also find us on facebook on twitter if you drop us a line there for me and the team is going by and take. Seems. Just some. 60. With different languages we fight for Different Things thats fine but we all speak up for Freedom Freedom of speech and freedom of press. Giving freedom of Choice Global news that matters w made for minds. Theres theres news africa coming up on the program ask over 19 vaccine trials go into full swing get in south africa many are skeptical why we need equaling tear to us welcomed with open arms. The brutal murder of 6 french aid workers on 2 local guides and the jet repercussions of the west african country and. These young elephants in kenya need to be taken care of but theres just not enough money to feed