Valerie Amos, a top U.N. official, said the world must make the link between climate change and the drought in Somalia.

Valerie Amos, U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator: “We have to take the impact of climate change more seriously, as well. Everything I’ve heard has said that we used to have drought every 10 years, then it became every five years, now it’s every two years. And if you don’t have the rains at the beginning of the year or towards the end of one year, then you’re going to have a problem into the next year.”