Famine threatens Somalia

mogadishu - The signs of an acute famine in Somalia are becoming clearer. That says aid agency Save the Children Sunday. 'Babies die on the side of road are carcasses and pull desperate nomads through the streets with empty water buses,' a spokesman describes the situation in the Somali region of Puntland.

The UN estimates that only required if $ 900 million to avoid a 'devastating famine' in Somalia. Since suffering more than 6 million people with food shortages. Nearly 1.4 million children in African countries Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are severely malnourished. If these children are not helped soon, starvation threatens, warns Unicef. In 2011 came more than a quarter of a million people to hunger in this region.

The drought in this region caused by El Niño, a global natural phenomenon in which the oceans give off high heat. It can lead to flooding from heavy rainfall or even drought enormous.