Several swarms of desert locusts are
now present in localized areas of Somalia, northern Kenya, and Ethiopia's Somali Region. The locusts have the potential to damage agropastoral crops in these areas, reducing household food access,
although initial control efforts in Ethiopia were successful. The locusts exacerbate an already complex situation in GHA, in which rainfall is sufficient in some areas but deficient in others.
Rainfall continues to increase in southern Africa. Rainfall has been abundant across most regions with isolated flooding occurring.
In the short term there is flooding in portions of Angola.
A protestor destroys a photograph of Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki during a demonstration in the western town of Kisumu, January 17, 2008. Kenyan police clashed with opposition protesters on Thursday in ...
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