A pledging conference in Rome next week will try to raise $70 million to pay for the impact of the swarms.

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Unusually heavy rains late last year provided ideal breeding conditions for the destert locusts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

The hoppers grew into locusts making the worst swarms in a quarter of a century.

The increase in numbers and density means theiy could increase 500-fold by mid year.

There are fears the swarms will move westward from the Horn of Africa into Uganda and other countries. 

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Her visit marks the 400 anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being sent to the United States.

Nancy Pelosi says she’s particularly honored to be the first US  Speaker to address the Ghanaian parliament.

She will have talks with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo Addo.

Pelosi  will visit the Elmina fortress from where African slaves, at a rate of 30 000 a year,  began their one-way journey into servitude in America.

Pelosi is also visiting the US Army’s Africa Headquarters in Rome.

The delegation traveling her with includes Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar – one of the Democratic representatives urged by President Donald Trump last week to go back to where they came from

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