Away from the Corona crisis headlines, rural communities across East Africa are battling with an ancient enemy – the desert locust. In Kenya, the swarms are the worst for over 70 years, with small pastoralist farmers hit hardest.

Specialist monitoring agencies have linked the return of the locusts to cyclones in Yemen and the increased rainfall caused by climate change. Some even believe the locust population has been directly affected by the Australian bushfires at the end of 2019.

BBC Africa’s Sharon Machira reports on the attempts to control the locusts in a country already struggling with the challenges of Covid 19.

Presenter: Sharon Machira
Producer: Tom Roseingrave

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