Famine is looming in Horn of Africa

adis ababa - Famine threatens 17 million people in the Horn of Africa. About 12 million of them have already needed food aid now. That the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, announced Sunday. In large parts of the Horn of Africa drought prevails; there is only a quarter of the normal amount of rain has fallen in the past six months.

In Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, the situation is serious and needs food aid. 'If we do not act now, imminent disaster,' António Guterres warned of FAO.

Because of the drought, the crops failed and livestock died.