East African countries should join hands to fight locusts

Two men who work for a county disaster team identifying the location of the locusts, are surrounded by a swarm of desert locusts filling the air, near the village of Sissia, in Samburu County in January 16. [AP]

Swarms of locusts have destroyed large areas of farmland and are threatening food security in East Africa.  East African countries and those in the Horn of Africa ought to work together for effective control of these destructive insects.

Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea and Uganda should unite and look for a lasting solution to this attack.