{"id":8036,"date":"2020-02-12T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T06:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:51","slug":"locusts-invade-uganda-as-tanzania-deploys-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/12\/locusts-invade-uganda-as-tanzania-deploys-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Locusts Invade Uganda As Tanzania Deploys Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Desert\nlocusts on Sunday crossed from neighbouring Kenya into Uganda through Amudat in\nthe northeastern part of the country, a government official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s\ntrue they (locusts) have entered into Uganda. They are already inside Amudat\ndistrict,&#8221; Martin Owor, commissioner in charge of disaster management,\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugandan\nPrime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda called for an emergency meeting later on\nSunday, Mr Owor said, adding that the government has a plan to fight the\nlocusts, which migrated from Kenya&#8217;s Turkana and Samburu areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said\nthat security personnel and surveillance teams have already been deployed to\nhelp fight the pests, and that Uganda&#8217;s government officials on Sunday\ntravelled to Kenya to meet their counterparts on agreements to allow spray\nplanes to cross borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda\nlast week released Ush15 billion (about $4.5 million) as a contingency fund to\nhelp fight the locusts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The East African country last experienced a major locust invasion 70 years ago, which caused immense damage on crops, according to the agriculture ministry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Locusts-invade-Uganda-as-Tanzania-deploys-experts\/1066-5450482-uonua9\/index.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert locusts on Sunday crossed from neighbouring Kenya into Uganda through Amudat in the northeastern part of the country, a government official said. &#8220;It&#8217;s true they (locusts) have entered into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}