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Supercomputer helps in tracking East Africa locust outbreak

by Associated Press
| March 12, 2020 2:10 AM

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control a locust outbreak that raises what the U.N. food agency calls "an unprecedented threat" to the region's food security.

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