The locusts are coming thick and fast as the low-flying aircraft punches through the swarm, leaving khaki-coloured streaks smeared across the plane’s windscreen and obstructing the view outside. But the pilot - despite travelling at 100 miles per hour - is unfazed. He simply winds down the window of the unpressurised cockpit, reaches his arm outside and wipes away what’s left of the insects with a damp cloth. The swarms emerged in Yemen early last summer but have since poured into northern Kenya - where a “super-swarm” some 2,400 square kilometres wide was spotted last week. It is only the third time since 1950 that locusts swarms have been seen on this scale.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 25, 2020 15:00 UTC