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Title: Desert Locust Invasion Update_ 5th June 2020

Date Published: 5th June 2020
Author/s: Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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Journal Publisher: Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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Keywords: ASARECA
Locuctsts
Desert Locusts
Uganda
Somalia
Ethiopia
West Africa

Abstract:

The locust invasion situation in East Africa remains alarming as new swarms from current breeding are expected to form from mid-June onwards, coinciding with the start of the harvest season.
? Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia continue to face unprecedented threat to food security as the region battles with the impacts of COVID 19, ravaging floods in addition to the locust invasion.

There is a risk that the new swarms will spread across the Indo-Pakistan border as well as to Sudan and perhaps West Africa.
Locust populations remain high in parts of Somalia with young nymphs (hoppers) reported at the Somaliland border with Ethiopia, the coastal region of Somaliland and the northeast of Puntland.

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