The Locust

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An average swarm can destroy crops sufficient to feed 2,500 people for a year, according to the FAO,

swarms of desert locusts were devouring crops and pasture in The East African region to South Sudan and the UN's food Agency says.

Several millions of South Sudanese people, which occur already with hunger as the country fights a Civil War .

The UN has warned that a food could be a crisis looming in East Africa when the outbreak is brought under control.

The US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has committed $8m (£6m), the counter-invasion on his visit to Africa.

Mr. Pompeo spoke after talks with Abiy Ahmed , the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, has been met with Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda, as a result of the pests.

The Invasion is the worst infestation in Kenya for 70 years and the worst in Somalia and Ethiopia for 25 years.

efforts to control The Locust infestation so far not effectively. Aerial spraying of pesticides by aircraft is The Most effective way in the fight against the swarms but also the countries in the region on The Right resources.

There are now fears that The Locusts breed in The Hundreds of Billions - more.

'reconnaissance mission'

The Food and Agriculture organization (FAO), said about 2,000 adult insects were in South Sudan , via Uganda, in the southern County of Magwi.

"These are deep yellow, which means that they are particularly looking at areas in which they lay eggs," the AFP news Agency quotes the FAO's South Sudan representative, Meshack Malo, as a matter of course.

Minister of agriculture, Onyoti Adige Nyikuac said the government was spraying the training of people.

"we, Too, chemicals for spraying and Sprayer must. You also need to move cars during the spraying, And Then later, if it gets worse, we need a plane," he said, AFP reports.

About 60% of the South Sudanese population faces food Insecurity and the destruction of crops by locusts could warn to the rescue, a decline in nutrition levels in children, rights group, "The Children ".

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Even without the grasshoppers, The Charity expects More Than 1. 3 million children aged under five years suffer from acute malnutrition this year.

The FAO says, the insects, the food multiply your own body weight in food Every Day , so fast that the numbers could grow 500 times until June.

Organ of The United Nations last week called on The International community almost $Fund 76 m (£58m), which is the spraying of the affected areas with insecticides.

Somalia, a national state of emergency as a response to The Crisis .

The Ethiopian government has called for "immediate measures" to deal with the problem, relate to four of the country's nine States.

Kenya, the deployment of aircraft to spray pesticides in different regions and its agriculture Minister, Peter Munya , said on Monday that The Invasion was "under control".

Meanwhile, Uganda has soldiers in the Northern regions to spraying pesticides in the affected areas.

The Locust swarms entered Africa from Yemen three months ago.

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Source of news: bbc.com