As another wave of locusts looms over East Africa, farmers are struggling to come to grips with the destruction of yet another harvest.

East Africa has not just suffered from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, but also the worst locust plague in decades. Now, the swarms are returning, and experts are concerned about food security in the region.

After the rainy season and devastating floods, Ethiopia is facing an influx of desert locusts. Tens of thousands of people lost everything in the floods and the insects have destroyed many remaining crops. Meanwhile, war broke out earlier this month in the northern Tigray region between the army and Tigrayan forces. Local authorities are concerned that an already disastrous humanitarian crisis could get even worse. Our correspondent Maria Gerth-Niculescu reports.

Farmers bang on metal containers to try and fend off swarms of desert locusts that have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across western and central India this year, the country’s worst pest infestation in almost three decades.