Save the Children: Locusts, Floods and COVID-19 - A Potentially Deadly Combination for Malnourished Children Across the Horn of Africa
April 30, 2020
April 30, 2020
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut, April 30 -- Save the Children issued the following news release:
The resurgence of swarms of desert locusts - with more expected to hatch in May - coupled with the impact of COVID-19 and a return of flood season, will devastate the chances of survival for malnourished children in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, Save the Children warns.
This month, communities across the Horn of Africa, which are already reeling from the impact of COVID-19, are conte . . .
The resurgence of swarms of desert locusts - with more expected to hatch in May - coupled with the impact of COVID-19 and a return of flood season, will devastate the chances of survival for malnourished children in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, Save the Children warns.
This month, communities across the Horn of Africa, which are already reeling from the impact of COVID-19, are conte . . .