This article was published more than 5 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. A desert locust is seen in a July 29, 2004, file photo.

In a few weeks the young locusts will shed their skin, said Keith Cressman, a senior locust forecasting officer with the FAO. “It takes a few days to warm up their wings,” he said.

Even before the locust invasion, some 11 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya were experiencing food insecurity, and the swarms will worsen the situation, the FAO said.

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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Flooding, swarms of desert locust, COVID-19 and earlier shocks could threaten more than 5 million people in Somalia with acute food insecurity by the end of ...

Out of Somalia's 15 million people, 5.2 million currently need aid, the United Nations says, and more than 2.6 million are displaced due to fighting and natural disasters.

There are fears that the situation may not be brought under control before the harvest begins in April. The UN says the swarms are the largest in Somalia and Ethiopia in 25 years.

A second generation of locusts have spawned, just as crops are being planted for the new season, threatening the livelihoods of more than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa.

Even before the locust invasion, some 11 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya were experiencing food insecurity, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said.

MOGADISHU, June 30 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank said on Tuesday it has approved a 40 million U.S. dollar grant for Somalia to fight locust invasion which has impacted the livelihoods of nearly 2.6 ...

Somalia has declared a national emergency as large swarms of locusts spread across east Africa. The country's Ministry of Agriculture said the insects, which consume large amounts of vegetation ...

Desert locusts are destroying tens of thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in Somalia in the worst invasion in 25 years, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday, and the ...