{"id":19481,"date":"2021-02-26T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19481"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:00:21","slug":"a-biblical-invasion-of-locusts-threatens-to-cause-widespread-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-biblical-invasion-of-locusts-threatens-to-cause-widespread-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cBiblical\u201d Invasion Of Locusts Threatens To Cause Widespread Famine In The Horn Of Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19235\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/lawmakers-asking-whether-cyberattack-is-act-of-war\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,100\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"black_horse_blog-300&amp;#215;100-300&amp;#215;100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19235\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/black_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"19482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-biblical-invasion-of-locusts-threatens-to-cause-widespread-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa\/locust-swarm-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Locust-Swarm.png\" data-orig-size=\"768,355\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Locust Swarm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Locust-Swarm.png\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19482\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Locust-Swarm-300x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Locust-Swarm-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Locust-Swarm.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by Michael Snyder\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/author\/Admin\/\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"author-name\">Michael Snyder<\/span><\/a> &#8211; February 21, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The locusts are back, and they are hungry.\u00a0 Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia.\u00a0 Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but now the locusts have returned and one British news source is using the world <a title=\"\u201cbiblical\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/climate-and-people\/biblical-plague-manageable-threat-beating-back-swarms-kenyas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cbiblical\u201d<\/a> to describe this second wave.\u00a0 At this moment, the Horn of Africa is being hit the hardest, and the UN is warning that this new infestation <a title=\"\u201cthreatens the livelihoods of more than 39 million people\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/kenya\/threat-new-plague-locusts-kenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cthreatens the livelihoods of more than 39 million people\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the next generation of locusts <strong>threatens the livelihoods of more than 39 million people<\/strong> in Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, and Kenya. Over recent months, the pests have been combated on 1.3 million hectares of land in the Horn of Africa. However, in northern and central Kenya, more than 15 districts, including many new areas, have already been severely affected by the second wave of locusts. Around 1.9 million people were already living in a precarious nutrition situation, <strong>which could now dramatically worsen<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One reporter recently had the opportunity to fly with a pilot that is tracking locust swarms in Kenya, and he <a title=\"was stunned\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/climate-and-people\/biblical-plague-manageable-threat-beating-back-swarms-kenyas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was stunned<\/a> when they came across a \u201cswarm about twice the size of the City of London ready to devour every bit of vegetation in its wake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine what it must be like for local farmers when <a title=\"millions upon millions of locusts\" href=\"http:\/\/themostimportantnews.com\/millions-of-desert-locusts-invade-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">millions upon millions of locusts<\/a> suddenly show up in their area?<\/p>\n<p>These locusts can literally wipe out an entire farm in as little as 30 seconds, and these swarms are capable of traveling vast distances <a title=\"in a single day\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/tea\/news\/east-africa\/desert-locust-invasion-kenya-3296074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a single day<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Swarms can fly up to 150 kilometres a day with the wind, and a single square kilometre swarm <strong>can eat as much food in a day as 35,000 people<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/a-biblical-invasion-of-locusts-threatens-to-cause-widespread-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Snyder &#8211; February 21, 2021 The locusts are back, and they are hungry.\u00a0 Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia.\u00a0 Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but now the locusts have returned and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-biblical-invasion-of-locusts-threatens-to-cause-widespread-famine-in-the-horn-of-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A \u201cBiblical\u201d Invasion Of Locusts Threatens To Cause Widespread Famine In The Horn Of Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[213,36,6943,412,48],"class_list":["post-19481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-horse","tag-africa","tag-disaster","tag-horn-of-africa","tag-locusts","tag-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-54d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19499,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions\/19499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}