INTRODUCATION

Droughts are the classic slow-onset disaster. They develop slowly, tend to least a long time and cover a wide geographic area. A Drought is a generally defined as a period of abnormally dry weather, sufficiently long enough the lack of water to cause serious hydrological imbalance in effect. They kill more people than any other type of disaster. Acc. to a study conducted by below et. Al., the drought related disasters from 1900-2004 had taken toll of more than half of 22 million deaths associated with natural hazards . In the present paper an attempt has been made to study the reasons both physical as well as human related reasons behind this famine in The horn of Africa i.e. somalia, suffering from famine from 2011

OBJECTIVES
To assess the humanitarian situation in somalia and effects of the current drought. To identify real needs of people affected by droughts. To collect information for proposal development & fund raising

DATA BASE

METHODOLIGY
The present paper has used information obtained from various sources including articles from newspapers, magazines, internet and numerous books and research papers.

RESULT/ ANALYSIS
Famines in somalia were because of following reasons Production failure : Which was due to very poor rainfall that resulted in crop failure and high food inflation in an already destabilized and poor country Access Failure: As a country of pastoralists, livestock's which future resulted in dearth of their power. Moreover an internal conflict has made the access of international help difficult for residents. Response Failure : Lack of any civil government various parts of the country has future worsened the conditions of famine. Vagaries of weather : Failure of rainfall from years 2011 to12 due to unusually strong La Nina effect.

IMPASCTS
The drought has affected almost all countries of Horn of Africa According to UNESCO nearly 43% of population need emergency livlibured and life saving assistance. Water scarcity has struck the country in its worst way that iq about 200 liters of water costs 10 in many parts of the country. The quality and availability of pastures has been declined. Health of livestock animals has been badly affected due to non availability of proper diet. Malnutrition, dysentery and other water borne diseases are common in many parts of country. Lack of people are displaced from their places of origin and moved to the relief camps but a still larger number livable to reach their.

RECOMMMMENDATIONS
The still remaining water resources should be protected and efforts should be made to raise their level. Emergency treatment and vaccination campaign should be launched to to protect livestock animals. Emergency food distribution and therapeutic feeding is needed for saving life and minimize malnutrition. Emergency health interventions in most affected areas is the need of hour.

CONCLUSION
The 2011 to 12 famine in somalia was not only a natural phenomena but also a product of human made factors such as lack of governance, political instability and conflict, which has undermined the traditional coping strategies of the people in response to the natural hazard of droughts. Therefore ,a joint effort by the entire globle community and the local administration is required to help the people and protect them from adverse impacts of their mutual and man induced drought that has resulted in severe famine.