After crossing Pakistan, swarms of locusts entered India through Rajasthan on April 11. On Monday, locusts entered some residential areas of the Jaipur city.

The locusts initially entered Rajasthan from Pakistan

Many parts of Western, Northern and Central India have been facing locust attacks. The picture is from the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh and shows a thick blanket of locusts covering the...

The bugs were seen over Dubai on Sunday evening and in the capital last week

In East Africa, it's not just a pandemic making life difficult. Heavy rains, an ongoing locust outbreak and the closure of open-air food markets due to COVID-19 all lead to major concerns over food...

A second infestation of locusts has taken flight, and experts fear a third could arrive during the year’s most crucial harvest, causing calamitous food shortages.

These insects not only harm farmers, they also bring down politicians.

The UN’s World Food Programme announced last week that, based on numbers from before the novel coronavirus became a global pandemic, 135 million people worldwide would go to bed on the brink of...