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No end to locust threat, says State

It will take at least two months to check the spread of desert locusts in counties they have invaded, the government has said.

Speaking in Isiolo yesterday, Kello Harsama, the Administration Secretary at the Crop Production Department in the Ministry of Agriculture, said at least 17 counties remained badly affected by the pests.

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