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2021-03-15 13:30:54 GMT2021-03-15 21:30:54(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WINDHOEK, March 15 (Xinhua) Moses Ndara had high hopes for his crops after receiving some goods rains this year, but a third wave of the African migratory red locust invasion in Namibia has shattered those hopes, leaving him destitute and dependent on government aid to survive for yet another year. I am lost for words, this is very devastating. I have lost everything, Ndara said as he narrated how the locusts ravaged his two fields leaving nothing in sight. Just a single locust swarm, if it comes into a farmer s field in the morning, by midday it has eaten the entire field. In most if not all cases, that field represents the entire livelihood of that farmer. This is really like a natural disaster, he said.