6/24/20

Why locusts are descending on East Africa

While most of our reporting focus in 2020 focused on the coronavirus outbreak that rapidly became a pandemic I turned my focus to another plague leading to famine in East Africa. The locust outbreak was the worst seen in decades and this piece looks into why.

Animation work by Matt Dunne.

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