Morning Briefing

Only weeks after the U.N. declared an end to the famine in Somalia, regional climate scientists meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, at the 30th Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum have said preventive measures should be taken to stem the effects of drought that likely will return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa over the next three months, IRIN reports. USAID's "FEWS NET said people should expect erratic rain in southern Somalia and southeastern Kenya" and will "be releasing a detailed outlook in the coming weeks," the news service notes. But "[o]ne of the problems highlighted was the lack of linkage between early warning and early action. 'There is no framework that allows the trigger of funds when the early warning bell is sounded,' said one aid worker," IRIN writes (2/29).