The Horn of Africa, one of the world's most impoverished regions, is being ransacked by billions of tiny invaders. Farmers look on in horror as desert locusts moving in vast cloud-like swarms darken ...

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, desert locusts swarm over a tree in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Rachel Nuwer, The New York Times Company Melodine Jeptoo will never forget the first time she saw a locust swarm. Moving like a dark cloud, the insects ...

KATITIKA, Kenya (AP) — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-making does little to stop the voracious ...

Aid agencies report swarms of locusts have been descending on farms in northern Kenya, destroying crops and even leaving pastures bare of vegetation. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in a ...

Swarm formation imminent in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia as regional harvests begin Desert locusts could cause up to $8.5 billion in damages and losses by the end of 2020 FAO requests additional $78.4 ...

More than 95% of pesticides now being used in East Africa to fight locust swarms are scientifically proven to cause harm to humans and other organisms such as birds and fish. Half of the anti-locust ...