Locust swarms the size of cities have been ravaging large parts of East Africa, the Middle East and southwestern Asia, devastating cropland and threatening the livelihoods of millions of people. Billions of the voracious insects have descended on Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, are threatening Ethiopia’s vital grain regions after devastating Somalia and Djibouti, and have this week reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after...

Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95. Moi’s death was announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement on the state broadcaster on Tuesday. Moi, who ruled Kenya for 24 years, had been in and out of hospital for months. Kenyatta ordered national flags to fly half mast from Tuesday until sunset of...

Eritrea blasts U.S. visa ban, Nigeria creates committee to address issues Eritrea denounced a U.S. ban on immigrant visas for its citizens as “unacceptable” on Saturday, while Nigeria’s government said it had created a committee to address the issues that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to add the country to the ban. Nigeria and Eritrea were among six countries, four of them in Africa, added to an expanded version of the U.S. visa ban announced...