MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE CONGO, EBOLA FADES AND LOCUSTS ARRIVE: It’s StrategyPage’s latest Congo and Central Africa update. I wrote some of it. Some good news about the Ebola virus epidemic: “The number of new Ebola “cases per day” has dropped. From February 18 to 23, there was only one new confirmed case in North Kivu Province.”

But yet another plague:

The huge desert locust swarm sweeping across eastern Africa reached Congo’s Lake Albert region in late February. This is the first major locust swarm to strike Congo since 1944. Locust swarms are already ravaging neighboring Uganda. On February 11 the Ugandan government deployed around 2,000 Ugandan Army soldiers to fight the locusts.

Read the post to find out how a Ugandan Army counter-locust operation works.