Double efforts to curtail breeding of desert locusts

Early this year, Mandera, Meru and Isiolo counties came under a desert locust invasion. 

Early this year, Mandera, Meru and Isiolo counties came under a desert locust invasion. Initial efforts to fight off the invasion were, to say the least, ineffectual.

The first attempt to scare away the insects using tear gas and bullets failed. That called for change of tack, but still the government seemed overwhelmed. Within a few days of aerial chemical spraying, the government ran out of requisite chemicals, and by then, there was a new threat of coronavirus.