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Desert locusts plague East Africa on scale not seen for decades

Desert locusts plague East Africa on scale not seen for decades - Sally Fulton-Foster Sally Fulton-Foster Imagine walking through a sandstorm and not being able to see. Your senses overwhelmed, your eyes gritty. Now imagine walking through a swarm of millions of flying desert locusts. It’s not a dissimilar experience. Totally overwhelming and disorientating. But when the sandstorm subsides, everything returns to normal. When the locust swarm moves on, utter devastation lies in its wake. Field after field of ravaged crops, as far as the eye can see. © Farmer Bodo Ayiso, whose crops were eaten by the locusts. Desert locusts on a scale not seen for decades have been causing havoc in Ethiopia and other countries in East Africa throughout 2020. There has been limited media coverage so it’s not surprising so many of us remain unaware of the humanitarian disaster in the making here. We’ve been pre-occupied with a global pandemic and the impact it’s had on our

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