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Five stories you may have missed this week because of COVID-19

The news may be saturated by COVID-19 and new areas of society it is affecting, but other news is still out there.

20 March 2020

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Desert locusts wreak havoc in Uganda in worst infestation in 70 years

A one-kilometre-square swarm of locusts can eat the same amount of food as 35,000 people.

19 February 2020

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UN warns of humanitarian disaster if locust swarms aren't stopped

Billions of locusts have been swarming across the Arabian peninsula and East Africa

14 February 2020

Somalia

Somalia deals with plague of locusts — by frying and eating them

The locusts are destroying crops and threatening vast parts of the country with food insecurity.

22 December 2019