NAIROBI ¨C Climate change may be powering the swarms of desert locusts that have invaded eastern Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a hunger crisis, locust and climate experts said.
Hundreds of millions of the insects have swept over the Horn of Africa in the worst outbreak in a quarter of a century, says the United Nations.
By June, the fast-breeding locusts ¡ª already devouring huge swaths of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia ¡ª could grow by 500 times and move into Uganda and South Sudan.
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