Mandera County is under attack by locusts

Locusts have invaded some parts of Mandera North, just days after Kenya was declared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to be free from locust invasion.

Speaking to KNA by telephone, the FAO's deputy director general in the country, Hamisi Williams, said a locust attack was reported on Monday evening in the Mandera North area, after the insects arrived in the country from neighboring Ethiopia.

Hamisi said the invasion was caused by strong winds that transported the insects from southern Ethiopia to Mandera.

He confirmed that government officials and their FAO counterparts had been sent to the area to assess the situation.

In addition, he said (FAO) in collaboration with the government continues to spray drugs in the affected areas.