Climate Changed

A Much Larger Wave of Locusts Is Threatening East Africa

Locusts feed on shea trees in Otuke, northern Uganda.

Photographer: Photographer: Sumy Sadurini/AFP via Getty Images

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Kampala, Uganda (AP) -- Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years.