As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland. Pilot Kieran Allen ...

Chlorpyrifos, teflubenzuron, or deltamethrin: these are the barbaric names of the chemicals, which are the tools of battle to stem the locust invasion plaguing East Africa. On Monday, the Kenyan ...

Desperate farmers in Kenya are beating drums and burning pepper in frantic attempts to protect their crops and pastures from enormous swarms of ravenous desert locusts, some blanketing as much as ...

Kenya on Monday announced it has finally managed to contain the locust invasion that had rocked the East African country. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kenya tweeted that only Samburu ...