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The Fifth Floor: Chasing Kenya's locusts

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Chasing Kenya's locusts

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Reporting Kenya's biggest locust threat for 70 years

Chasing the swarm: Anne Soy reports on Kenya's biggest locust threat for 70 years.

Hundreds of millions of locusts have been swarming across East Africa, with Kenya seeing its biggest threat for 70 years.  BBC Africa's Anne Soy joined farmers and pastoralists to watch the extraordinary swarms go by.  

My Home Town: Donetsk
Anastasiya Gribanova, who works for BBC Ukrainian in London, grew up in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.  She shares memories of football matches, and chips in Lenin Square. 

Indian yaks 
Yaks provide the livelihood of many people in India’s Himalayan states, but last year's unusually severe winter caused hundreds to die.   Vikas Pandey travelled to a remote village in Sikkim to meet herders and find out more.

Georgia's Soviet spa town 
Tskaltubo in Georgia was built as a spa resort for the Communist Party elite and deserving workers.  It's since fallen into disrepair and become a makeshift shelter for internally displaced Georgians.  Now, as the BBC's Rayhan Demytrie tells us, there are plans to return Tskaltubo to its former glory.

Sri Lanka's controversial national anthem 
Sri Lanka celebrates Independence Day on 4 February, and the new government has suggested that the anthem may be sung only in Sinhala, and not Tamil as well.   It’s not the first time the Sri Lankan national anthem has proved controversial, as BBC Sinhala’s Suneth Perera explains.

Photo: A man runs through a desert locust swarm in Kenya
Credit: EPA/DAI KUROKAWA

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