According to the United Nations, hunger may strike parts of Somalia between October and December as a drought worsens and food prices rise globally.
According to analysts, the Horn of Africa is on course to have a fifth consecutive failed rainy season as it is currently suffering from its worst drought in 40 years.
Famine, according to the U.N. Martin Griffiths, head of humanitarian affairs, spoke at a press conference in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Famine was predicted to affect regions of south central Somalia, but this time it was worse than in 2010 and 2011 because of four failed wet seasons and decades of armed strife.
More than 25,000 people died in the famine of 2011, most of them children.
International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian organisation, stated on Monday that the declaration of famine in 2011 came too late.
According to ICR chief David Miliband, “people are already dying.” “Half of all deaths during the previous famine in Somalia in 2011 occurred before famine was declared.”
