How war threatens Ethiopia's struggle against worst locust swarm in 25 years

As surveillance and spraying operations cease due to conflict, there are fears the existing food crisis could worsen They marched over grassy plateaux and down craggy hillsides, beating the earth with sticks and blasting gunshots into the darkening skies. "Never before have we seen something like this," says Mulualem Berhe, a 54 year-old farmer shaking a plastic bottle filled with pebbles, thick plumes of smoke enveloping the trees behind him. A few feet away a pickup truck rolls into view, teen...