*Somali farmers have urged their government to help protect crops from the worst invasion of locusts in 25 years. “Locusts already ate our grazing area so we are now fighting to save at least our farm ...

A locust on a cotton crop in Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet county in January 2021. [File, Standard] A new wave of locusts has invaded farms and grazing lands in Turkana South, posing a threat to ...

Kenya and its Horn of Africa neighbours are intensifying efforts to build stronger surveillance and early warning systems against desert locusts, to protect millions of farmers and pastoralists whose ...

Millions of dollars will be spent to combat an “apocalyptic” locust plague gripping western Queensland in what is being ...

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Thursday announced that it had sprayed pesticides to ward off desert locusts over 578,000 hectares of land across Pakistan, adding that the insect ...

The Trump administration said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to an agency statement.

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James over her civil fraud case against President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the probe told Reuters on Friday, ...