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A local tour guide holds a handfull of dead desert locusts after an invasion in Shaba National Reserve in Isiolo, northern Kenya, 16 January 2020. Large swarms of desert locusts have been invading northern Kenya for weeks, after having infested some 70 thousand hectares of land in Somalia which the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has termed the 'worst situation in 25 years' in the Horn of Africa. FAO cautioned on 13 January 2020 that it poses an “unprecedented threat” to food security and livelihoods in the region. The government is spraying pesticide in the affected areas to battle the insects. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)
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