In pictures: Desert shrimps

“We buy the locusts from the boys," says Esther Daniel, who sells fried locusts in Maiduguri town.

"After that we remove their wings so they can’t fly,” she says.

“We simply deep-fry them in vegetable oil. Then they are ready to be eaten as a snack,” Mrs Daniel explains.

“We make a powder of salted hot chilli which we call yaji. You eat the locust by dipping it in the yaji.”