Locusts menace already hunger-stricken
 

Locusts menace already hunger-stricken Mali and Niger

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/worl...ali-niger.html

And you thought putting up with our election cycle was hard!

"Mali is already bedeviled by the messy aftermath of a military coup, Tuareg rebels who’ve declared their own state, Islamists trying to impose strict religious law in the north, and waves of hunger.

Now Mali and neighboring Niger are facing swarms of locusts, which were left uncontrolled while Libya and Algeria, which normally keep local locusts from moving south, grappled with conflicts and insecurity of their own..............."