{"id":768567,"date":"2019-12-20T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/20\/somali-towns-novel-solution-for-locust-outbreak-eat-them\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T07:07:04","slug":"somali-towns-novel-solution-for-locust-outbreak-eat-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/20\/somali-towns-novel-solution-for-locust-outbreak-eat-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali town&#8217;s novel solution for locust outbreak? Eat them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/1576681802506.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-more-body\" data-reactid=\".21acih5h3ei.1.e.0.0.0.5.1\"><!--sse--><!-- C-ON- TEXT_CONTENT_START --><\/p>\n<p>Mogadishu &#8211; Residents of\u00a0a central Somali town besieged by locusts\u00a0have taken an unusual approach to fighting the destructive pests: eating them.<\/p>\n<p>Locals in Adado have started consuming\u00a0the insects that have invaded their town and rural areas. Islamic scholars have declared them halaal and so permissible to eat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pictures of people cooking and eating the locusts were circulating widely Thursday on social media and on television broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia faces the worst outbreak of desert locust in more than 25 years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in an emergency update issued on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".21acih5h3ei.0.1d\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {\n                        if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {\n                           n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n                        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n                        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n                        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                        fbq('init', '794201197427829');\n                        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n                           <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-reactid=\".21acih5h3ei.1.4\">(function(d, s, id) {\n                    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n                    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n                    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n                    js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9\";\n                    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n                  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\" id=\"facebook-jssdk\" async=\"\" data-reactid=\".21acih5h3ei.1.u\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu &#8211; Residents of\u00a0a central Somali town besieged by locusts\u00a0have taken an unusual approach to fighting the destructive pests: eating them. 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