East Africa is facing major threat from #DesertLocusts. The window of opportunity to help is still open & the math is clear: pay a little now, or pay a lot more later. @FAO is urgently asking for $138M to help governments control these devastating pests: https://t.co/v7DePJNFhL pic.twitter.com/UbyPyDUEeY— FAO (@FAO) February 25, 2020
FOX News: Locust outbreak devastating East Africa reaches Congo, UN officials say
A locust outbreak that has devastated parts of East Africa and overwhelmed local officials has reached the Congo, according to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
The desert locusts, carried in part by the wind, arrived on the western shore of Lake Albert on Friday, marking the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944.
The worst outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years also recently reached South Sudan, a country already devastated by food shortages and years of civil war.
Kenya, Somalia and Uganda also have been battling the locust swarms, which can reach the size of major cities.
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More News On East Africa's Huge Locust Outbreak Continuing To Spread
East Africa’s huge locust outbreak now spreads to Congo -- AP
Locusts in East Africa: A Race Against Time -- Relief Web
Watch: Devastating locust swarms threaten food supply of millions -- The National
FAO ‘deeply concerned’ about invasion of locust swarms in East Africa -- France 24
Swarms of locusts have destroyed 170,000 acres of crops in East Africa — and local farmers are nearly helpless to stop it -- Business Insider
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Liberals' fault.
"In this era of incredible modern agricultural and insect control technologies, when American farmers get 3-5 times more crop yields per acre than 50 years ago – how is it possible that Africa remains perpetually on the brink of starvation? That Africa faces yet another locust plague of biblical pharaoh proportions? That Africans must rely on absurd “time-tested,” almost totally ineffective locust control methods?
Incredibly, this looming catastrophe is due to policies and programs that have been officially adopted and deliberately implemented by the very UN agencies that are now crying loudest about the horrific situation.
For years now, the FAO, UN Development Programme and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) have been working in cahoots with some of the most radical environmentalist pressure groups on Earth to devise and impose “agroecology” – a perverse combination of socialism, pseudo-ecology and primitive, anti-technology agriculture. The program is financed and advanced by the UN, by European governments via their development agencies and funding of environmentalist NGOs – and even by US taxpayers, who provide 22% of UN funding and underwrite grants to and tax-exempt status for environmentalist groups."
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