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In the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, residents are provided with soap and water to wash their hands in order to help halt the spread of the coronavirus.

coronavirus

First Person: The struggle to protect human rights in East Africa during the pandemic

UN News

Desert Locust Swarms

coronavirus

Relentless locusts return in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic

East Africa hit by a second wave of locusts leaving millions of people food insecure

By Mickaël Sallent

Desert Locust swarms in Kenya.

Health

FAO makes gains in the fight against Desert Locusts in East Africa and Yemen but threat of a food security crisis remains

By FAO

A swarm of Desert Locusts in Samburu County, Kenya

Peace and Security

UN fast tracks $10 million loan to help scale up FAO action to fight Desert Locusts

By FAO

A swarm of desert locusts fill the sky near a farm.

Climate Change

More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’

UN News

Locusts can devastate crops and pastures.

Climate Change

East Africa locusts threaten food security across subregion, alerts UN agriculture agency

UN News

Au Kenya, un éleveur avec ses bœufs qui ont survécu à la sécheresse. Les deux tiers de son cheptel ont été décimés. Photo: FAO/Tony Karumba

News

FAO issues alert over third consecutive failed rainy season, worsening hunger in East Africa

Number of people needing humanitarian assistance on the rise

By FAO

Work on the LAPSSET highway in progress near Turbi in Kenya. The road will connect Kenya with Ethiopia. Photo: Wanjohi Kabukuru

Also

A megaproject rises in East Africa

Roads, railways, port, pipelines to link Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan

By Wanjohi Kabukuru

Health Campaign