Climate change linked to African locust invasion

A motorist stops at Kaburu dam in Embu County, Kenya, when a swarm of locusts invaded the area on January 28, 2020. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

Climate change may be powering the swarms of desert locusts that have invaded eastern Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a hunger crisis, locust and climate experts said.

Hundreds of millions of the insects have swept over the Horn of Africa in the worst outbreak in a quarter of a century, says the United Nations.