UGANDA FACES SECOND WAVE OF DESERT LOCUSTS
Another wave of locusts swarmed into Uganda earlier this month as the country – along with many others in East Africa – is battling the worst locust invasion in decades. The UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has labelled the threat as “extremely alarming.” Unlike former swarms, the new wave of insects is at a growth…
18 MARCH ’20 | PRAY FOR EAST AFRICA
Dear prayer partners, On Thursday 12 March, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that more swarms of hundreds of billions of locusts were beginning to form in the Horn of Africa. Desert locusts have been swarming through parts of East Africa and South Asia since January in the worst infestation for a quarter…