Starving Yemenis find food source in Massive "LOCUST "Outbreak
- 2019-06-04
- 01:23:16
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"Instead of them eating our vegetables, now we eat locusts with rice and our vegetables are fine," said one Yemeni farmer.
A massive outbreak of desert locusts has been reported in Yemen, where desert locusts were seen for the first time in three years, according to the Middle East Eye. Yemeni villagers took advantage of the swarms of locusts by using them as an alternative food source.
Yemeni villagers attempted to catch the insects to save their crops, as Yemen is in the midst of a food crisis.
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