'Time running out' for drought-devastated Somalia

"Time is running out" for thousands of people in Somalia as a historic drought is ravaging the country, according to a climate expert. The wider Horn of Africa has had four consecutive failed rainy seasons, a first in over four decades.

A fifth rainy season, due to start in the coming days, will likely fail as well.  That endangers an estimated 20 million people in one of the world's most impoverished and turbulent regions.

At least one million people have been displaced by the drought and widespread deaths are being reported.  In Somalia, 250,000 people died from hunger in 2011, when the UN declared a famine in some parts of the country.

Half of them were children. The United Nations on Monday warned there were concrete indications that famine was likely to occur later this year in the southern Bay region.