Somali authorities have decided to introduce an emergency regime in the country in connection with the locust invasion, the local edition of Garowe Online reports citing a statement from the Somali Ministry of Agriculture, Trend reports..

Earlier it was reported that UN Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock allocated $ 10 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to control locusts on the African continent.

The ministry is said to have declared an emergency "

The United Nations notes that the locust invasion that affected the Horn of Africa, Southwest Asia and the Red Sea region is the largest in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia and the worst of those observed in Kenya in 70 years..