How Kenya averted a food unrest in the wake of Covid-19

In mid-February, a few weeks before Kenya confirmed its first cases of Covid -19, the country was already stirring at yet another crisis; food scarcity.

The available maize stock at the time could barely last the country beyond June, the government warned, yet on the ground things were fast getting out of hand; an army of desert locusts –the worst in 70 years – that had emerged at the beginning of the year were quickly overtaking the country and threatened to wipe out acres of farmlands.