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Locusts and Covid -19 : when two plagues collide

LINK FOR ARTICLE As Covid-19 weakens supply chains throughout Africa and South-West Asia, desert locusts are threatening the food supply, In a large stretch of the planet that reaches from West Africa to India, the narratives from both are merging. With rising numbers of coronavirus cases and waves of locust swarms, hundreds of millions of people living in the region are finding themselves facing two plagues at once.

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