31 March 2020, Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, Isiolo county, Kenya - Desert locusts stand on the local vegetation. The current situation in East Africa remains extremely alarming as hopper bands and an increasing number of new swarms are forming in Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia. This represents an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods because it coincides with the beginning of the long rains and the planting season. FAO scales up its emergency response with a massive, border-spanning campaign needed to combat the locust upsurge.
Stanley Kipkoech, a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture studying the behaviour and mortality among a locust swarm after aerial spray campaign.