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COVID-19 and locust plague threaten food security

Cai Nebe
August 14, 2020

As a record locust infestation and COVID-19 hit East Africa, food resources may be getting scarce. But the supply chains to the most vulnerable of people may also be in jeopardy. DW talked to some of the people trying to solve this double blow in Kenya and Somalia.

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A member of the Turkana tribe walks through a swarm of desert locusts
Image: Reuters/B. Ratner