The UN has cautioned that Somalia’s “speedily increasing” famine has placed over two million people suffering serious food and water shortage, with the crisis country facing its fourth straight season of low rainfall. “Around 2.3 million people live in 57 of the 74 districts… According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, water pans and boreholes have dried up, producing serious water, food, and pasture shortages, as well as an increase in the risk of water-borne illnesses (OCHA). The Horn of Africa is “on the verge of a fourth straight failed rainfall season,” according to a statement released late Thursday. According to the UN agency, the severe situation has prompted almost 100,000 people to evacuate their homes in search of food, water, and grass for their cattle. In recent years, natural disasters have been the primary cause of homelessness in Somalia, a war-torn country that is one of the world’s most sensitive to climate change. “A perfect storm is forming in Somalia,” said Adam Abdelmoula, the UN resident and humanitarian administrator for the country, who urged swift action to avoid calamity. Khadija Diriye, Somalia’s minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management, cautioned that if households lose their animals and fall deeper into poverty, they may starve to death. “I am especially concerned for children, women, the elderly, and the crippled, who continue to face the burden of Somalia’s humanitarian disaster,” she said. This year, drought and flooding in Kenya and South Sudan have resulted in severe crop failures and increased strain on livestock-dependent people. Last month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR declared South Sudan floods to be the worst since 1962 in some areas, blaming the rains on climate change.