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West Africa panics over imminent desert locusts invasion

Elvis Adjetey - January 25, 2020

Farmers in the West African countries are sitting on tenterhooks following the latest warning from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that the dreaded...

Southern Africa

Angola hit by crop-eating armyworm

Isaac Kaledzi - April 28, 2017

The fall armyworm - which decimates fields as it marches ever forward - has spread to Angola as the caterpillar eats its way through...

East Africa

East Africa food prices at record levels due to drought

Isaac Kaledzi - February 15, 2017

Workers arrange meat products inside the Nakumatt supermarket in the reopened Westgate shopping mall, in Kenya"s capital Nairobi. File Photo Credit: Reuters Drought in East...