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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fire, Plague, And Now... LOCUSTS!
2020-01-26
Stolen from elsewhere - the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are puttin' the band back together...
[ABC News Australia, via Fark] - A locust plague of almost biblical proportions is ravaging Eastern Africa's food bowl, prompting the United Nations to call for international help.

Hundreds of millions of the bugs have swarmed into Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, creating the worst outbreak of desert locusts there in 70 years.

Somalia and Ethiopia have not had an infestation like this in a quarter of a century. It has destroyed farmland and threatened an already vulnerable region with devastating hunger.

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has warned the "unprecedented size and destructive potential" of the swarms could leave millions of people without food.
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