Armyworm hits northern Cameroon, worsening food crisis
Across the Lake Chad region around 1.5 mln people are confronting a food crisis
YAOUNDE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Crop-eating fall armyworms have attacked nearly 37,000 hectares of maize in northern Cameroon, officials said on Wednesday, accentuating an already dire humanitarian crisis provoked by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram's cross-border insurgency.
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