Somalia a country on the brink of famine

The United Nations said today that the whole of drought and conflict-wracked southern Somalia is heading into famine as the Horn of Africa food crisis deepens. In a report for countries sending aid, the U.N.'s umbrella humanitarian agency OCHA said the "crisis in southern Somalia is expected to continue to worsen through 2011.

As the crisis continues Lydia O’Kane spoke Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and President of UK Catholic aid agency CAFOD John Arnold.He is currently in neighbouring Kenya a spoke the unfolding situation. “I am in fact in central Kenya … that’s hundreds of kilometres from the real catastrophe but it’s all beginning to happen there.”

Bishop Arnold adds that this crisis touches thousands of communities who need help. Listen