CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Somalia declares ‘national emergency’ over locust swarms.

Detailed explanation-2: -2019–2022 locust infestation is a pest outbreak of desert locusts which is threatening the food supply across the regions of East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Indian subcontinent. The outbreak is the worst in 70 years in Kenya and the worst in 25 years in Ethiopia, Somalia, and India.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pakistan has declared a national emergency after rain-induced calamitous floods killed more than 937 people. The country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has called the incessant monsoon rains a “climate-inducted humanitarian crisis of epic proportions”.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the nineteenth century, India experienced serious locust outbreaks in 1812, 1821, 1843-’44, 1863, 1869, 1878, 1889-’92, and 1896-’97. Several efforts were made to combat the swarms.