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Hundreds of millions of locusts have been swarming across East Africa, with Kenya seeing its biggest threat for 70 years. 大象传媒 Africa's Anne Soy joined farmers and pastoralists to watch the extraordinary swarms go by.

My Home Town: Donetsk
Anastasiya Gribanova, who works for 大象传媒 Ukrainian in London, grew up in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine. She shares memories of football matches, and chips in Lenin Square.

Indian yaks
Yaks provide the livelihood of many people in India鈥檚 Himalayan states, but last year's unusually severe winter caused hundreds to die. Vikas Pandey travelled to a remote village in Sikkim to meet herders and find out more.

Georgia's Soviet spa town
Tskaltubo in Georgia was built as a spa resort for the Communist Party elite and deserving workers. It's since fallen into disrepair and become a makeshift shelter for internally displaced Georgians. Now, as the 大象传媒's Rayhan Demytrie tells us, there are plans to return Tskaltubo to its former glory.

Sri Lanka's controversial national anthem
Sri Lanka celebrates Independence Day on 4 February, and the new government has suggested that the anthem may be sung only in Sinhala, and not Tamil as well. It鈥檚 not the first time the Sri Lankan national anthem has proved controversial, as 大象传媒 Sinhala鈥檚 Suneth Perera explains.

Photo: A man runs through a desert locust swarm in Kenya
Credit: EPA/DAI KUROKAWA