Addis Ababa, March 27, 2025 (POA) — The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) plays a pivotal role in mitigating the impact of migratory pests that threaten the region’s food security, according to Mwesigwa Moses Rwaheru. As a primary regional body dedicated to controlling pests like desert locusts, armyworms, Quelea birds, and tsetse […]
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) is a Regional Organization established in 1962 by an International Convention signed by the Governments of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Its mandate is to control Migratory Pests in the Region. The DLCO-EA invites applications from the nationals […]
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) is a Regional Organization established in 1962 by an International Convention signed by the Governments of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Its mandate is to control Migratory Pests in the Region. The Organization invites applications to fill the […]
Quelea birds are one of the major crop pests that pose a huge risk to small grain crop farmers and cause pre-harvest losses in the eastern Africa region. Breeding, feeding and migration patterns have been changing over the years possibly due to climate change and expansion of irrigated farming in the region. As a body […]
Scattered and few solitary and very small groups of immature Desert Locust movement continued in August in Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Oromia, and Somali (Siti Zone) Administrative Regions and Dire Dawa rural villages. A ground survey was conducted on 621,105 in the North, Northeastern, and Eastern parts of the country by Federal Plant Protection Directorate and […]
The Desert locust situation was calm in the region except where numbers of immature groups, low-density adults persisted in some locations scattered solitary locust were seen Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. Generally, control operations treated 1,192 ha, in Eritrea and A total of 849ha treated with 452 liters of ULV pesticides in Sudan. In Ethiopia […]
