UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock has released $10 million to tackle the outbreak of desert locust in eastern Africa, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
According to the UN official, the locust outbreak may further aggravate food shortages in the affected territories.
He expressed the need to stop the outbreak, preventing it from spreading to more African countries.
The current desert locust outbreak has hit southwestern Asia, the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. According to the United Nations, this is the worst locust outbreak in Ethiopia and Somalia in 25 years, and the worst one in Kenya in 70 years.
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