ECOWAS seeks future collaboration after reviewing the 'abstinence tablet,' a Thai traditional medicine innovation that cuts withdrawal symptoms in 90 per cent of patients.

BORENA ZONE, Ethiopia - From a distance, it looks like billowing smoke. But as it nears, the swarm of locusts comes into focus: Billions upon billions of them, thick as a blizzard, uncountable as raindrops, a jaw-dropping procession of the ravenous creatures of biblical infamy, flailing and flapping in the air, blocking out the sun like a bad omen.