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Locust menace: Why the storm is not yet over

Men who work for a county disaster team wrestle with locusts, near the village of Sissia, Samburu. [AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi]

The locust invasion has reached what experts call full blown crisis hitting almost half of the counties and destroying acres of crop and fodder.

Despite the unprecedented nature of the situation, the state maintains that Kenya is on top of things.

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