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Locusts threaten food security in East Africa
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
A United Nations report is warning that new breeding of locusts in different parts of East Africa is elevating the risk of the swarms to food security.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta have agreed that ministers from the two countries should meet to resolve an on-going border dispute over Coronavirus testing.
And we speak to Ethiopian Canadian film director Tamara Dawit about her latest movie "Finding Sally”, she talks about the disappearance of her aunt during the ‘Red Terror’ in Ethiopia.
(Photo: Locusts in Kenya. Credit: Reuters)
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Wed 20 May 202019:06GMT
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