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KAMPALA: Locusts, Covid-19 and deadly flooding pose a triple threat to millions of people across East Africa, officials warned on Thursday, while the World Bank announced a $500 million programme for countries affected by the historic desert locust swarms. A new and larger generation of the voracious insects, numbering in the billions, is on the move in East Africa, where …

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