South Sudan’s new financing to address acute food insecurity, desert locust crisis
Deborah Wetzel (L), World Bank Director of Regional Integration for Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Africa (PHOTO/File). JUBA ...
Tag: Desert locusts
EU contribution of €8 million to strengthen gains in Desert Locust fight
Fatuma Abdi Dalmar has been a farmer all her life in Ethiopia. Her crops were devastated by Desert Locusts (PHOTO/Courtesy). ...
Desert Locusts invasion still a challenge in East Africa
It's easy to believe that Desert Locusts could have ended their 'attacks' onto the East Africa region but experts have ...
FAO seeks $40M for anti-locust fight in East Africa, Yemen
swarm of locusts in western Kenya (PHOTO/File). NAIROBI -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking ...
Double trouble as another new swarm of locusts enters Uganda
The desert locusts that entered in Amudat landing on trees in Amudat district (PHOTO/Jonathan Opolot). AMUDAT - As the country ...
Not even a coin! Karamoja locust-monitoring officials decry non-payment of allowance
The desert locusts entered Uganda through Amudat but monitors have since not received any facilitation despite the UGX38B that was ...
It may as well affect people and animals! Use of pesticides on locusts worries MPs
An officer spraying of desert locusts in Amudat district (PHOTO/File) KAMPALA - The use of pesticides in bid to fight ...
Despite the release of funds to combat locust invasion, no intervention has been made in Teso – MP Abala
The swarms of locusts continue to spread to other districts in the region and laying of eggs is expected to ...
Africa Solidarity Trust Fund donates UGX.4 billion to combat Desert Locust in Uganda
Government delivered to Karamoja 18,000 litres of cypermethrin and another 18,000 litres of Chlorpyrifos to spray the locusts (PHOTO/File) KAMPALA ...
Alarm over Desert Locusts increases as new generation of the destructive pests starts breeding in Horn of Africa
FAOwarns of unprecedented threat to food security & livelihoods. The potential for destruction is enormous (PHOTO/File) KAMPALA - The UN ...
