, after meetings with other UN agencies, Government representatives, donor Governments and the Southern African Development Community, the UN World Food Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation issued reports in which they starkly warned: "Southern Africa still requires substantial food aid despite the fact that more food was produced in the region than during last year's Severe Food Crisis .

The horn of Africa has experienced one of the worst droughts in 60 years and the most Severe Food Crisis in the world since Somalia's famine in 1991.