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Covid pushing us to the edge, let’s pull together to defeat it

This year’s World Humanitarian Day was celebrated on August 19, amidst a humanitarian crisis.

As the world was bracing for the possible spread of the Covid-19 beyond its origins in Wuhan, China, desert locusts were sweeping through swatches of pastureland and cropland in Kenya, in what experts say is the worst invasion in 70 years.

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