Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Like a Biblical Plague, Locusts Swarm East Africa, Laying Waste to Crops and Livelihoods


BEER, Somalia — In the distance, it looked like a cloud of confetti.
Faisa Abdi Alleh had never seen anything like it. Neither had anybody else here in the tiny town of Beer in northern Somalia.
With the cloud hovering over her farm about a mile away, Alleh and several of her children ran to investigate.
As they got closer, they could make out the whirring wings and the ridged torsos no longer than a finger.
“We saw them before they landed,” Alleh recalled.


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