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World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

A farmer scares away locusts from his maize farm at Karundu village in Nyeri on February 19, 2020. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI | NMG

By  GERALD ANDAE

The World Bank on Thursday approved a Sh4.5 billion loan to Kenya to help in combating locust swarms that are destroying crops in Eastern Africa.

Kenya will get the concessional 30-year loan from the World Bank alongside Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda, pushing the total loan to $129.5 million (Sh138 billion).

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