Uganda's army has been deployed to spray pesticide on locust swarms sweeping the country, but experts say this may have a limited effect on the insects that are overwhelming 9 countries on the continent. – EPA pic, February 19, 2020.
UNDER a warm morning sun scores of weary soldiers stare as millions of yellow locusts rise into the northern Ugandan sky, despite hours spent spraying vegetation with chemicals in an attempt to kill them. From the tops of shea trees, fields of pea plants and tall grass savanna, the insects rise in a hypnotic murmuration, disappearing quickly to wreak devastation elsewhere.
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