Locusts
Aswan Governor issued directives to officials to intensify action meant to battle swarms of locusts that appeared Friday night on the southern borders.
A locust outbreak in Sudan and Eritrea is spreading rapidly along both sides of the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the U.N. FAO warned.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation started a pre-emptive plan in border areas to control the anticipated swarms of desert locusts.
