Al Shabaab shoot locusts with machine guns as Somalia battles biggest swarms in 25 years

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Somali farmers are battling the country's largest locust infestation in 25 years

According to the group’s media, insects that have infested farmland around the southwestern town of Tiyeglow, an Al-Shabaab stronghold, are being shot at with a PKM rifle — a machine gun version of the Russian Kalashnikov.

 

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I agree with ArcaneAce. Nature has sent you a viable source of food. Eat them. Every one eaten will no longer destroy crops or make others to do so.

Eat them

why don't they just eat the locusts?

Numbers 24:9 ?

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