The outbreak also is moving toward South Sudan, where another several million people face hunger as the country struggles to emerge from civil war. The United States said Monday it has released $800,000 and the European Union has released 1 million euros. He is one of the people fighting swarms of locusts wreaking devastation across whole countries in Africa. The outbreak is so severe it might even disrupt the planting of crops in the coming weeks, he said. Even before the locust invasion, some 11 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya were experiencing food insecurity, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization said.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2020 20:15 UTC