Drivers on a Sahara Desert highway were ambushed by a massive swarm of locusts covering the road on Feb. 24, and while mostly harmless to humans, these insects still pose serious threats to crops, ...

Kenya and Ethiopia sprayed millions of hectares of cropland and pastures with chemical pesticides in response to massive locust swarms that emerged between 2019 and 2021. In Ethiopia, around 76 ...

A locust on a cotton crop in Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet county in January 2021. [File, Standard] A new wave of locusts has invaded farms and grazing lands in Turkana South, posing a threat to ...

Aid agencies report swarms of locusts have been descending on farms in northern Kenya, destroying crops and even leaving pastures bare of vegetation. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in a ...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for a fatal 2021 shooting on the city's north side. A jury found 55-year-old Pernail McDougle guilty of first-degree reckless ...