{"id":4360,"date":"2020-03-12T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4360"},"modified":"2020-03-15T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:47:48","slug":"un-warns-of-new-locust-swarms-forming-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/03\/12\/un-warns-of-new-locust-swarms-forming-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations warns of new locust swarms forming in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ROME &#8212;<\/strong> The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said new locust swarms began to form in the Horn of Africa &#8212; especially in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia &#8212; and some other countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a report by FAO, the new swarms are \u201crepresenting an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods at the beginning of the upcoming cropping season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was further added that the swarms might affect a variety of countries &#8212; including Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Iran, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lotus swarm with a population of 40-80 million is able to consume food enough for 35,000 human beings within a day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, swarms can cover a distance of 150 kilometers (93 miles) a day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AA\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/un-warns-of-new-locust-swarms-forming-in-africa\/1763559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME &#8212; The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said new locust swarms began to form in the Horn of Africa &#8212; especially in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia &#8212; and some other countries. According to a report by FAO, the new swarms are \u201crepresenting an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods at the beginning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}