Located near the Dallol crater in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression is Gaet’ale Pond, a famous tourism attraction and is also the saltiest body of water on Earth.

East Africa is anticipating a second wave of locust outbreak in 2020, which is expected to be 20 times the size of the first. The swarms of billions of insects are threatening food security in the already vulnerable region – and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.