Somalia needsInternational assistance again... this time not to protect itin the throes of a devastating famine but the attack of aswarm of voracious locusts,known as quela. "The farming communities in Somaliaare becoming increasinglydesperate, almost going back10 the same situation as during the famine," lamentsTalib Ali, a UN official working with the Food andkgriculture Organizationitationed in Somalia. A giantswarm of the quelatiny quail-like maraudinginsects - has reportedlydescended like a pall ofdoom over the Somalianfarmlands. And unless international forces are mobilisednow, Somalia will be ravaged once again.