The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a warning of the likely increase in the population of desert locusts in Somalia owing to Cyclone Gati.
Cyclone Gati has made a landfall in the coastal areas of the East African nation.
It has created heavy rains and intense winds that left plenty of destruction over the weekend when it hit the shores.
FAO now warns that the destruction of property, and loss of lives that the cyclone occasioned, is not the end of problems.
Instead, it expects to see a huge increase in the number of desert locusts.
FAO warned that the invasion by a new swarm of locusts is likely to be more concentrated in northern Somalia, which has felt the brunt of Cyclone Gati.
It said the conditions Cyclone Gati created make this part of the country attractive to locusts from the eastern and central Somalia.