If there is no rapid, effective response to this crisis now, and if there is no rain in April, the situation is going to get worse, and people will start getting hungry -- and will start dying.

The situation is more worrying (in Somalia) because of the 15 years of conflict in a country that has lacked central government.

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

The drought is making an already dire situation worse for the majority of the people in southern Somalia.