Swarm Chasers
Channel 4 | Unreported World
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KENYA | Swarm Chasers
Alongside coronavirus, Kenya is being gripped by another plague. Billions of locusts are swarming across Kenya and its neighbouring countries, devouring crops and threatening millions with starvation.
Filmed before the UK went into lockdown, reporter Sahar Zand and filmmaker Karim Shah were in Kenya on the trail of huge swarms of locusts, the biggest seen for 70 years, in a country in which agriculture provides a livelihood for more than 80% of the population, and where over a million people live on the edge of hunger.
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"Devastatingly clear...Deftly highlights how ordinary people's livelihood are affected" - The Telegraph
“Be grateful that Unreported World airs in the early evening because this week you won’t want to retire to bed with its horror-film images playing in your head.” - Radio Times
CREDITS
REPORTER | SAHAR ZAND
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR | KARIM SHAH
SERIES EDITOR | SUE TURTON
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | EAMONN MATTHEWS