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Ethiopia Steps Up Aerial Spraying To Stop New Desert Locust Invasion

Sora Halake

   Ethiopian officials have deployed helicopters to spray new swarms of
   desert locusts that are eating crops and threatening the country's food
   security.

   The U.S. Agency for International Development saidbillions of the pests
   have descended on East Africa in recent weeks, targeting crops and
   pastures across a region already facing widespread hunger and
   humanitarian needs.

   In the latest development, huge swarms swept into Ethiopia's southern
   Oromia region last week from Kenya and Somalia, displacing thousands of
   people, officials said.

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