Billions of locusts swarmed Madagascar’s
capital Antananarivo on Thursday, prompting
residents and tourists to share photographs of
the sudden insect invasion on Twitter, while
experts worried about the effect on the country's
food supply.
In the past five years, swarms of giant locusts
have regularly swept in over the island nation off
Africa’s southeastern coast, devastating crops
and other food supplies within just a few hours.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO) of
the United Nations estimates that the ongoing
locust plague in Madagascar threatens the
livelihoods of some 13 million people, of which
nine million earn their living from agriculture.
Last year, the UN agency launched a three-year
emergency program to try and control the locust
infestations through aerial campaigns to protect
crops. Out of the $44 million (€33 million) in
donations the FAO has called for to fund the
program, it has so far only received $28.2 million,
meaning the funding gap exceeds the $15 million
needed to implement two more campaigns in
2014/15 and in 2015/16.
Since the spraying operations started in
November 2013, locust populations on 1.2 million
hectares of land have been controlled.
In an interview with BBC Focus on Africa last
year, FAO locust control expert Annie Monard
said: "The last one (plague) was in the 1950’s
and it had a duration of 17 years so if nothing is
done it can last for five to 10 years, depending on
the conditions."

http://www.france24.com/en/20140828-pictures-millions-locusts-swarm-madagascar-crisis-atananarivo/#./?&_suid=14108726919610022486066268825433

Locust are good source of food...seems they don't hunt locusts anylonger in Madagascar.

Let them come to nija for training on how to hunt locust, especially in Maiduguri.

I learnt they eat those shi*t

k o

Hmmm...

The biblical Plague of Locusts!

op tnx 4 d informate

Op no photo?? Nawa o

Subhanallah.... Innallilahi wa innaili rajiun.

in this era??.... Anyway na protein food.


but op where is the picture of d locust destroying abi threatening their lives??

icepoint: Locust are good source of food...seems they don't hunt locusts anylonger in Madagascar.

Let them come to nija for training on how to hunt locust, especially in Maiduguri.

Hahahahahah!

Am I suppose to believe you OP without a single photo. #pishureorIdontbelieveyou

Some peeps lera gonna say;END TIME tIns!

Wey the pishure na?

Plague ke? Locust is good source of protein na,they should start eating them and the locusts won't last for a year!

Different problems everywhere. None of my business.

Sometime Locust is a beast... talking of xprience.

Y dis s*upid locust go madagasca when pple have been waitng for it here for soup making

see good source of protein dey waste

Hahaha...see showers of blessing ooo


Eat them all jhorr!!

Madagascar authourities shld free d isrealites in dia custody......cos very soon,death of d 1st borns might visit them

Pictures op

Joel in the bible,yeah am also joel self,make dem come for deliverance

Please these locust should find their way to boko haram camp and eat their balls

Billions of locust.. It seems like Madagascar have being cursed with excessive amount of protein.

Plague of the locust? I see some Christians screaming--" End time tins"

The wrath of God. End tym don nack

thank God is not " millions of bee'. if not Na double wahala for dead body. n femi's voice.

Hmmmm... Locust nd honey my best food!! Since d days of John de baptist

tsolz84: Plague of the locust? I see some Christians screaming--" End time tins"

are u not a christian. u sound christientious.