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Voracious: Destructive desert locusts swarming over fields in Ethiopia last month. Swarms can destroy a crop within hours. Photo: Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
AFRICAN MIGRATORY LOCUSTS

Locust pot is stirring in the Karoo

There’s a new plague in town — and this time it’s biblical

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
A local resident tries to swot away a swarm of desert locusts in Mathiakani, Kitui County, Kenya, on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020. The number of locusts in East Africa could expand 500 times by June, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation said last month. (Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BALDWYN TORTO

In East Africa, the locusts are coming back for more

In February the devastating locust swarms were the biggest seen in East Africa for 70 years. Now they’re even bigger

  • Simon Allison
4 min read