A plague of locusts
CNN is reporting on a plague of locusts.
With covid-19 hindering efforts to fight the swarm, billions of locusts are taking over East Africa and threatening to wipe out the harvest—“potentially ravaging the livelihoods of some 20 million people who are already food insecure in the region.” According to CNN, Kenya saw a 37-mile long, 24-mile-wide swarm in January.
More data can be found in the catastrophically dismal Global Report on Food Crises 2020, from the international Food Security Information Network. The report finds that desert locusts are expected to be one of the main causes of food insecurity this year.
