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A free tool that will help farmers and pastoralists across Africa to predict and control locust behaviour has been launched. Kuzi—the Swahili name for the wattled starling, a bird renowned for eating locusts—is an AI-powered tool that generates a real-time heatmap of locusts across Africa. It shows all potential migration routes, and also gives a real-time locust breeding index. How ...

Uganda has today received locust control items worth billions from Chinese government. The items that range from spraying machines, back pack mist packers, single use medicine coveralls, disposal medical protective mask and disposable nitrile gloves were handed over to agriculture minister Vincent Ssempijja in Kampala. Uganda has had three waves of desert locust invasions in Uganda since 9th febrauary 2020 ...