UN Requests More Funding for ‘Unprecedented’ Locusts in Africa as China Deploys 100,000 Ducks

UN Requests More Funding for ‘Unprecedented’ Locusts in Africa as China Deploys 100,000 Ducks
A picture taken near Isiolo town in Isiolo county, eastern Kenya, shows locust nymphs aggregated in shrubbery at a hatch site on Feb. 25, 2020. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
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The U.N. has requested more funding to tackle the unprecedented swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across parts of Africa and Asia.

The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) made the funding appeal for an additional $62 million on Tuesday as it warned the East Africa region faces a hunger threat from the invasion of desert locusts that have devastated crops, vegetation, and animal pasture.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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