New immature locust swarms continue to slowly form from breeding in Puntland, Somalia where hopper bands persist near the coast. According to the F...
The details of the additional cash injection into the national carrier-KQ- are contained in the supplementary budget tabled in the national assembly a...
Since the beginning of September last year, the East African region was facing an acute food security following a second wave of desert locust invasio...
Kenya is under siege again by swarms of locusts that threaten to ruin farmers’ crops and pastures. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FA...
Desert locust swarms have reappeared in East Africa to the dismay of farmers and villagers who witnessed them wreak havoc on their crops and pasture i...
On 21 December, immature desert locust swarms from the north first arrived in northeast Kenya where they were seen southwest of Mandera. In the fol...
President Uhuru Kenyatta joined other regional leaders for the 38th Extra-Ordinary Summit of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Inte...
A new generation of Desert Locust swarms is threatening agricultural and pastoral livelihoods and the food security of millions of people in the Horn ...
Today, more than 70 world leaders met at a virtual Climate Ambition Summit hosted by the UK Government, where nations were called upon to bring new pl...
A cyclone that hit parts of Somalia this week killed eight people and displaced thousands, flooded farmlands and could worsen a locusts plague, an off...
The newly appointed Food and Agriculture (FAO) Representative to Kenya Carla Elisa Luis Mucavi has taken office. On Monday, she was welcomed by the A...
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned of a second wave of Desert locust attack in Kenya in December. Deputy Country Representative at ...
The World Meteorological Organization predicts La Nina will continue through January and is expected to usher in drier and wetter conditions than norm...
Marima Wadisha, a mother of 10, screamed, threw rocks and in her desperation even fired bullets at locusts that descended on her sorghum fields in nor...
Kenya's coronavirus cases have risen to 30,636 after 271 more people tested positive. Health CAS Rashid Aman said the new cases are from a sample s...
In the last three months, teacher Faith Njeri has been a regular customer at a courier service office in Nairobi, collecting parcels sent from her vil...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has commended parties to the South Sudan peace process for the progress achieved in recent months despite the health and econ...
By Victor Bwire Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's focus has been on the containment of the outbreak, and with nearly all sect...
Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists ...
The US government has granted Kenya Ksh.5.3 billion ($50 million) to support Kenya’s response and recovery efforts. The grant made through the US...