After the rains failed for a fourth consecutive season last month, UN aid agencies and meteorologists warned that a famine was looming in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu is packed with parents fearing the worst for their malnourished children. They tell AFP they have never endured a crisis of such terrifying magnitude, echoing the warnings of climate scientists who say the unprecedented drought is the worst seen in four decades. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES